The 19th-century American poet Emma Lazarus said she wrote the sonnet “The New Colossus” to raise money for the construction of the Statue of Liberty because she believed the statue would ...

A French politician recently called sarcastically on the United States to return the Statue of Liberty to France, arguing ...

My heart quickened as I spied the Statue of Liberty, alone on her island near ... their homes and businesses destroyed, their lives at risk every day. My mother tells the story of her own mother ...

A paraglider today had a miracle escape after his parachute was caught on the torch of the Statue of Liberty. The man was left hanging for 45 minutes by the ropes attaching him to the parachute ...