A French politician recently called sarcastically on the United States to return the Statue of Liberty to France, arguing ...

If America fails in our sacred commitment to individual liberty, what holds us together, and what do we become?

By adopting the Statue of Liberty as a central symbol ... that Democrats need to do more to instill a more balanced definition of America in voters’ hearts and minds. In just a few months ...

It tended to degrade the meaning of liberty itself.... Was a civil war inevitable over slavery in America? No. A war was not necessarily inevitable over slavery in America, but a deep conflict ...

In this lyrical, compelling and provocative portrait of the statue, Ken Burns explores both the history of America’s premier symbol and the meaning of liberty itself. Featuring rare archival ...

In eighteenth-century America, therefore ... When the Due Process Clause was ratified in 1791, the meaning of “liberty” as a personal right was clear. Sir William Blackstone, whose influence ...

Figures from every corner of politics have used the hall for events and rallies, amplifying the legend “that this is where the idea of American liberty is born.” Frederick Douglass argued here ...