Ellis Island ceased to be an immigration port in 1954. But while it remains central to one of New York's most iconic images, ...

Author Richard Foster tells how, as a teenager, he signed up for an internship in Alaska, thinking he would have the adventure of “working on the first high school above the Arctic Circle.” The ...

The US’s lofty rhetoric has long been at odds with its sordid practice.

The Statue of Liberty is available to stream on pbs.org ... FINALLY, IN THE SPRING OF 1886 WORKMEN BEGAN PRYING OPEN THE WOODEN CRATES THAT HAD BEEN SITTING ON BEDLOE'S ISLAND FOR A YEAR.

S1E1 The Statue of Liberty. This 1985 Ken Burns film chronicles the creation and history of the Statue of Liberty and what it represents to all Americans. Narrated by David ...

A giant space rock hurtling towards Earth at thousands of miles per hour might sound like something from a sci-fi film, but a ...

New simulations reveal that around 1 million "macroscopic" objects from our closest stellar neighbors, the Alpha Centauri ...

More than 1 million "interstellar objects" the size of the Statue of Liberty could be drifting unseen in the outer solar system right now, new simulations suggest. The hefty cosmic interlopers ...

Whether they're oversold, overrun or sometimes absent entirely, we've picked out the top 30 most overrated tourist sites on Earth that we think fail to live up to their often-enormous reputations.

Friends, family and supporters of one of Liberty County’s giants in civil rights got a glimpse at the honor that will stand ...

History remembers Flora as the hero of the Battle of Great Bridge. A sentry facing an onslaught of volleys, he fired multiple ...