At the end of October, the Statue of Liberty — a gift from
France to symbolize the friendship between the two countries and
a shared love of liberty — celebrated its 125th anniversary. The
American icon known as as Lady Liberty was dedicated in 1886 by
President Grover Cleveland, and receives millions of visitors
every year. Read More "Years before the statue was built,"
Barack Obama began the peroration of his June 30 speech on
immigration, Emma Lazarus "imagined what it could mean."
Actually, the French sculptor Bartholdi was at work on the
Statue of Liberty before Lazarus published her famous "give me
your tired" poem in 1883. (The statue was assembled in New York
Harbor two years later and dedicated in 1886.) Read More