Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

The Statue of Liberty, designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and engineered by Gustave Eiffel, was dedicated ...

The irony is stunning: At a time when the President of the United States appears at campaign-style rallies ranting against immigrants, on Thursday the new $100 million Statue of Liberty Museum opens ...

Patriotic symbols like the Statue of Liberty, the American flag, the bald eagle and Uncle Sam are easily recognized today, but our first symbol, Miss Liberty, is almost forgotten. Before the ...

CHICAGO — What motivated the creators of the Statue of Liberty was not art or engineering — it was the idea. But when it was dedicated in 1886, not everyone in America had achieved true freedom. An ...

Shortly after learning about President Donald Trump’s zero tolerance policy regarding migrants crossing the nation’s southern border without documentation, and the separation of children from their ...

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 mother ...