Controversy over an Amy Sherald painting of the Statue of Liberty reveals divides over US national symbols, joining debates ...

On August 5, 1884, William A. Brodie laid the cornerstone of the pedestal on which the Statue of Liberty stands.

If you’re departing from the New York side, you’ll hop on a Statue City Cruises ferry at Battery Park in lower Manhattan. If ...

A new painting by acclaimed artist Amy Sherald, titled 'Transforming Liberty', has sparked a debate about freedom and ...

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 ...

Lazarus wrote the sonnet in 1883, three years before the Statue of Liberty's dedication, and donated it to an auction raising funds for the pedestal upon which the statute would eventually stand ...

The statue’s history began when Édouard de Laboulaye, a French legal expert, poet, author and abolitionist, conceived of a monumental gift to the U.S. in 1865, one that would celebrate the end ...