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 ...

New York is full of landmarks that are recognizable to the point where they’re the whole world’s shorthand for the city. Now, a trio of HBO documentaries lay out the backstories of familiar sights we ...

(WDBJ) - President Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty in New York’s Harbor October 28, 1886. The monument was proposed by a French activist in the 1860s as a gift from the French people ...

Friday marks 131 years since one of the most famous presents in history was delivered: the Statue of Liberty. The statue was a gift from France to the United States honoring the century of friendship ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - October 15, 1924. President Calvin Coolidge designated the Statue of Liberty as a national monument. The statue was a gift of friendship from the people of France, standing ...

NEW YORK (WCSC) - President Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor 139 years ago, marking the completion of a project that began a decade earlier. French sculptor Auguste ...