On the first day of the federal shutdown, New York leaders gathered under the shadow of the Statue of Liberty to make plain the costs of Washington’s dysfunction. Governor Kathy Hochul, joined by ...

The Department of Interior said in a statement that both Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty will remain open.

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 ...

Standing tall and proud in the New York Harbor, the Statue of Liberty is a world-renowned landmark that has come to symbolize the ideals of freedom and opportunity. This iconic statue, gifted to the ...

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 ...

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 ...