These oft-quoted lines were written by a young woman named Emma Lazarus in 1883, as part of a longer poem called “The New Colossus.” Inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty, the verse has ...

Today, Oct. 28, 2021, is the 135th birthday of the Statue of Liberty. No doubt some perfunctory things will be said on the occasion. We need to think far deeper about what the monument — and ...

Near the end of the 1942 movie Saboteur, one of director Alfred Hitchcock's early American efforts, the heroine, played by Priscilla Lane, catches up with an enemy agent at the top of the Statue of ...

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden ...