The Statue of Liberty was a gift to the United States from the people of France to commemorate 100 years of Franco-American friendship. The statue also commemorates the centennial of America’s ...

O n July 22, 1849, Jewish writer and activist Emma Lazarus, most famous for her sonnet “The New Colossus,” was born in New York City. Two lines from her poem — “Give me your tired, your poor/Your ...

11. Lazarus’ hometown, New York City, has a public high school named after her. Fittingly, the Emma Lazarus High School on ...

These noble words, penned by poet Emma Lazarus, are cast at the base of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Lady Liberty is perhaps one of the most iconic symbols of America in existence.

In 1972, President Nixon dedicated the American Museum of Immigration, opened in the base of the Statue of Liberty, though shortcomings in funding its endowment closed the museum by 1991, when it ...

PARIS (AP) — Hey, America: Give the Statue of Liberty back to France. So says a French politician who is making headlines in his country for suggesting that the U.S. is no longer worthy of the ...

There was no shortage of descriptions from when the Statue of Liberty, a gift from France to the United States presented two years earlier, was dedicated in New York on Oct. 28, 1886.