“If you can share history through the individuals who lived it, and tell their stories through their eyes, from their lips, then you've really done something because you've personalized history in a way that gives it new meaning and new resonance.

The history comes alive!”
—Studs Terkel, author and oral historian

“For sixty-two years, millions of immigrants passed through the corridors of Ellis Island on their way to becoming Americans. Their journeys, however, are only part of the story. What of those immigrants who continue to come long after?”

—USA Today, September 24, 2008