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 ...

A video showing what the Statue of Liberty might look like if it were polished has gone viral for its imagination, but experts told Newsweek that such a move would be damaging in reality. The video, ...

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 ...

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

The city's first public statue was installed in 1950 by the Boy Scouts of America in a "Strengthening the Arm of Liberty" campaign that placed about 200 Statue of Liberty replicas around the country.

When Liberty Enlightening the World arrived in New York Harbor on June 17, 1885, the statue didn’t yet have a pedestal on ...