In the middle years of the last century more than two million men, women and children abandoned the British Isles. The Irish were 'shovelled out' by absentee la

A Passage to America: Notes of an Adopted Son is an anecdotal autobiography of Prof. Joseph M. Cheruvelil, a naturalized citizen of the United States. Submerged

For most of New York's early history, Ellis Island had been an obscure little island that barely held itself above high tide. Today the small island stands alon

More than twelve million immigrants, many of them children, passed through Ellis Island's gates between 1892 and 1954. Children also came through the "Guardian

History records only one peaceful transition of hegemonic power: the passage from British to American dominance of the international order. To explain why this