Statue of Liberty

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• 7/18/2021
  

  As Americans Hit the Road Again, It's Time to Revisit the Ideals of Liberty

  by Heidi M. Ravven

  Americans are contemplating travel as COVID gives way to greater freedom to move. There's no more apt place for a visit than the Statue of Liberty. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/14/19
  

  'Clearly, he did not take part in our curriculum': Historians bash Ken Cuccinelli's revised Statue of Liberty Poem

  Cuccinelli’s off-the-cuff edit befuddled and concerned immigration historians who saw his comments as a distortion of one of the nation’s most symbolic ideals. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  7/14/2019
  

  The Hidden History of Liberty Island

  Before the statue and long before the brand-new museum, there were pirates, real-estate ventures and public executions

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• SOURCE: Cornell Chronicle
  5/22/19
  

  History professor Maria Cristina Garcia helped plan, create Statue of Liberty Museum

  “Working on this project has been one of the most rewarding activities of my professional career,” Garcia said. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/23/19
  

  The Statue of Liberty was created to celebrate freed slaves, not immigrants, its new museum recounts

  Lady Liberty was inspired by the end of the Civil War and emancipation. The connection to immigration came later.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  5/14/19
  

  The new Statue of Liberty Museum is a quiet paean to America’s embrace of immigrants—but what is there to celebrate?

  The elegant little Statue of Liberty Museum opens to the public later this week and provides, at last, a consolation prize for the tourists who land on Liberty Island each year.

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• 6/29/18
  

  How We Got the Statue of Liberty

  by Suzy Evans

  It started with a small dinner party in Paris.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  3-5-18
  

  Who Does She Stand For?

  by Paul A. Kramer

  As the Statue of Liberty turned 100, our long battle over immigration was having its moment in Reagan’s America.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  8-2-17
  

  The Poem on the Statue of Liberty Was 'Added Later' But There's More to That Story

  The poem was engraved onto a plaque placed on the pedestal in 1903 — nearly two decades after the statue was unveiled — and that the monument wasn't always associated with immigration.

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• 8-3-17
  

  What Stephen Miller Got Wrong about Emma Lazarus

  by Ed Simon

  The Trump aide ventured into literary criticism from the White House podium Wednesday. Too bad he didn't know what he was talking about.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  8-2-17
  

  White House Distances Itself From The Poem On The Statue Of Liberty

  (Don't) “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”

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• 2-5-17
  

  That Statue of Liberty Poem Everybody Quotes?

  by Ryan Poll

  It’s about a different refugee crisis than the one we face now, but it’s every bit as relevant.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-5-16
  

  Bigger Museum Will Give Lady Liberty’s Crowds More to Do Than Snap Selfies

  The museum has been designed to absorb the crush of people arriving on ferries that dock every 20 to 30 minutes.

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• SOURCE: Global News
  12-1-15
  

  Was the Statue of Liberty originally designed to be a Muslim woman?

  Some historians say Lady Liberty evolved from another statue designed to be a peasant Arab woman overlooking the Suez Canal in Egypt.