11. Lazarus’ hometown, New York City, has a public high school named after her. Fittingly, the Emma Lazarus High School on the Lower East Side is tailored to English language learners; its 315-student ...

The Statue of Liberty, France's gift to the U.S., was originally viewed as a tribute to the end of slavery. But poet Emma ...

The strong reactions to Miller's view of the Statue of Liberty's meaning got us thinking: What is the poem's historic relationship to the statue and its symbolism to the rest of the world?. Esther ...

Although the poem radically changed the meaning of the statue, it faded from view after being circulated in a small magazine for a short while. Lazarus died in 1887 at the age of 38.

Jim Acosta quoted the most famous couplet from Emma Lazarus's 1883 poem The New Colossus etched on the Statue of Liberty in his argument with Stephen Miller.

The poem that you're referring to was added later (and) is not actually part of the original Statue of Liberty." Lazarus originally wrote the sonnet, entitled "The New Colossus," to raise funds ...

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 acting director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services in a new interview revised the iconic poem on the Statue of Liberty's pedestal to suggest that only immigrants who can "stand on ...

WBAL NewsRadio 1090/FM 101.5 - (NEW YORK) -- "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."These iconic words from "The New Colossus" — the 1883 poem written ...

The acting director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services in a new interview revised the iconic poem on the Statue of Liberty's pedestal to suggest that only immigrants who can "stand on ...

The acting director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services in a new interview revised the iconic poem on the Statue of Liberty's pedestal to suggest that only immigrants who can "stand on ...