New Peopling of America Center to Open at Ellis Island

The Peopling of America Center will expand upon the Ellis Island years of immigration to include the entire panorama of the American experience. How we became Americans, how we made and are still making the journey here, how we created and continue to influence our communities, and how this nation looks forward to building for the future. The plan is to free Ellis Island from its own immigration intake chronology (1892 to 1954) and present the nation’s fuller story, across centuries, coast to coast.  The plan of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation is to tell the new stories by tracking representative families of overlooked groups. The gritty detail of their journeys will show what drove them here and how they are surviving unto generations.