When Liberty Enlightening the World arrived in New York Harbor on June 17, 1885, the statue didn’t yet have a pedestal on ...
At the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., stands a 46-inch-tall model of an American icon – the Statue of Liberty – whose origin story may surprise you. "When this idea began, it was ...
The Statue of Liberty was originally designed as a marker of liberation of African Americans and the end of the Civil War. That part of its history was overshadowed by a late design change to instead ...
Two national monuments reached major milestones this week.The Statue of Liberty was was dedicated in New York Harbor by ...
The city's first public statue was installed in 1950 by the Boy Scouts of America in a "Strengthening the Arm of Liberty" ...
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 records ...