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 Statue of Liberty stood high and tall, bearing her torch of freedom and friendship between the U.S. and France. The monument had its fair share of mysteries, and a new revelation was out about its ...