The Statue of Liberty was the work of French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi. For more than a century, people have wondered about the model Bartholdi used for Lady Liberty. Historical ...

The Statue of Liberty, France's gift to the U.S., was originally viewed as a tribute to the end of slavery. But poet Emma Lazarus reimagined Lady Liberty as a "mother of exiles," welcoming ...

Sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi liked the idea and began creating "Liberty Enlightening the World" in 1870. Some mock drawings of the statue included an Egyptian woman marking the ...