On 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the legendary Emancipation Proclamation—one of the most significant documents in human history and a ...

Back in 1951, a teenage Barbara Rose Johns led a walkout at her segregated high school in Virginia that would go on to contribute to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of ...

In what can only be described as a too-on-the-nose metaphor for the United States’ weakening influence on the world, a video making the rounds on social media shows a giant replica of the Statue of ...

In 1951, a Black teenager led a walkout of her segregated Virginia high school. On Tuesday, her statue replaced that of a Confederate general in the U.S. Capitol. Barbara Rose Johns was 16 when she ...

In this week's It’s Debatable article, Rick Rosen and Charles Moster facetiously debate if the Statue of Liberty should be demolished to allow for the construction of a special statue of the same ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

A Texas-based startup is seeking backers for its new, ambitious project: building the largest statue in the country. The statue, a 500-foot stainless-steel monument to George Washington, would sit ...

See iconic images of the Statue of Liberty from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Photographs selected by Quentin Nardi Text by Tracy Scott Forson Many believe Augusta Charlotte Beysser Bartholdi ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) - On October 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France, was dedicated in New York Harbor. The gift was first brought up in 1865 to commemorate the ...

(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 ...

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 ...