The 151-foot statue was assembled in France by 1884 and presented to the U.S. minister to France that same year. Then came the challenge of actually bringing it stateside. Bartholdi had selected ...

In 1930, German archaeologists uncovered the lower half of a massive statue, estimating that it likely originally stood some ...

Give us back the Statue of Liberty.’” France gifted the statue, which stands at 305 feet tall and weighs 450,000 lbs, to the U.S. on July 4, 1884, to commemorate the 108th anniversary of the ...

The original torch, replaced by a replica in the 1980s, takes pride of place in the new Statue of Liberty Museum on Liberty Island. S. Pelly / Musée des Arts et Métiers The Statue of Liberty ...

The poll comes after a French politician called for the Statue of Liberty to be returned to France, which gifted the 305-foot sculpture to the U.S. in 1884. “We’re going to say to the ...