The final voyage of the Yankee Ferry is turning into an elegy. The storied 1907 vessel — the last surviving Ellis Island ferryboat — is back on the market for $1.25 million after the death earlier ...

Many of us think our surnames were “changed” into somtehing more American when our ancestors reached Ellis Island, but truth ...

As the justices prepare to hear a landmark case about birthright citizenship, their family stories are a reminder that the ...

New research reconstructs the lives of the immigrant, working-class, and Indigenous men who built the nation’s most iconic ...

The nine are about to take up a historic dispute that goes to the core of American identity. From their personal vantage points and separate ideological approaches, they will decide if the concept of ...

This simple guide breaks down five popular US landmarks kids will love to visit on your next family trip.

Amid the festive democratic hoopla of the No Kings rally, IRIS staffers collected dozens of immigration stories -- including from Rona Rohbar, who came to the U.S. with her family at age 17 from a war ...

A surviving W.C.T.U. sign at the Butler fire site is drawing new attention to the borough’s nearly 100-year temperance hall ...

Your kids will love these engaging landmark sites that combine history with adventure on your next family trip.

To learn more about 19th-century America, Stacker compiled a collection of 50 essential images that capture what life was like in the 1800s.