Unfortunately, Lazarus wouldn't live to see her poem get its due. melanzane1013, Flickr // CC BY-SA 2.0 The Statue of Liberty herself finally arrived in New York Harbor on June 17, 1885.

These iconic words from "The New Colossus," the 1883 poem written by American Emma Lazarus etched in bronze and mounted on the Statue of Liberty's pedestal, have again been catapulted into a ...

The history of the Statue of Liberty became the focus of a back-and-forth between Stephen Miller, an aide to President Donald Trump, and CNN’s Jim Acosta during the White House Press Briefing on ...

And so, clearly, that's what he was referring to. And we hear this all the time. The Statue of Liberty poem is quoted all the time as though it represents some fundamental American value.

Attached to the Statue of Liberty is a bronze plaque inscribed with a poem familiar to many Americans. Written by Emma Lazarus in 1883 and hung inside the statue’s pedestal in 1903, it has long ...

The poem came up again on Tuesday morning, during an interview with Rachel Martin on National Public Radio. Image The Statue of Liberty during the Parade of Ships this year. Over time, the statue ...

"The Statue of Liberty says, 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," said CNN correspondent Jim Acosta, referring to Emma Lazarus' poem "The New Colossus ...

She wrote the sonnet, after some persuasion by friends, for an auction to raise money for the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. But the details of the poem’s production and of its author’s ...

Should the poem on the Statue of Liberty guide U.S. immigration policy? Americans are divided, according to a new poll. Photo from Jeff Burak, UnSplash Attached to the Statue of Liberty is a ...