Climbing the Statue of Liberty is a rare opportunity to see New York from a historic perspective. This guide walks through what to expect, how to prepare, and whether the climb is actually worth the ...

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Annie Burke shares memories of how her father, Jim Burke, helped her overcome childhood respiratory illness.

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The Brooklyn Museum is showcasing two works from Red Grooms and Mimi Gross's 50-year-old public art masterpiece Ruckus ...

Just after 2 a.m. on July 30, 1916, a freight car loaded with TNT exploded at a munitions depot on Black Tom Island in New ...

The U.S. Capitol on Tuesday began displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school, a pointed replacement for a statue of ...

The U.S. Capitol on Tuesday began displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school, a pointed replacement for a statue of ...

Footage of the incident showed the statue bending against the wind before ultimately crumbling into the pavement below A replica of the Statue of Liberty in Guaíba, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, ...