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

You can’t say that education is up to the states while simultaneously demanding that states do your bidding. And yet, here we ...

Brattleboro-born Richard Morris Hunt was chosen to design a gigantic pedestal to support the Statue of Liberty. The statue ...

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 ...

The Statue of Liberty, a hollow colossus composed of thinly pounded copper ... and the use of electricity to light the torch. Édouard René de Laboulaye collaborated with Bartholdi for the concept of ...

My heart quickened as I spied the Statue of Liberty, alone on her island near the Jersey shore. In her robe and radiant crown, with torch raised high, she looked just as I remembered. But for the ...

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 ... “A mighty woman with a ...

Though I live in Asheville now and boast of its culture and resilience, I hail originally from New York. A small piece of me will always remain in Manhattan. Recently, I visited my 94-year-old ...