December 15, 2025
Tag: Castle Garden New York
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Castle Garden, the Gateway to Ellis Island
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America’s welcome mat at Ellis Island in New York was for refugees — from hunger, political unrest, or poverty. While before 1890 the states controlled immigration, in 1890 the federal government took control through the Departments of Commerce, Labor, and (in 1940) Justice. Ellis Island wasn’t the only federal immigration center, but it was the…
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September 19, 2022 4 Comments
Charles A. Lindbergh. Hero or scoundrel? There are men of Lindbergh’s calibre in every generation. They come to light is a blaze of glory and end in gloom and darkness, not knowing why the fates chose them to be “famous” or having any idea of their impact on society.