Welcome to Our Resource Guide on the Topic of Immigration in America
Often depicted as a central reason for both the existence of the Statue of Liberty and the nearby Ellis Island, immigration to the United States has been a subject of in-depth historical and contemporary research. We hope these webpages will assist you in better understanding its overview and the various nuances that have developed around it, theoretically and pragmatically.
Image at left taken from book cover to In Search of Liberty: The Story of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, by James B. Bell and Richard I. Abrams from 1984. Click HERE for access to it in our catalog!