BRATTLEBORO — In 1882 Brattleboro-born Richard Morris Hunt was chosen to design a gigantic pedestal to support the Statue of Liberty. The statue was a gift from France to the United States. The ...

Pt. I. Colonial America. Overseas migration from Europe ; English immigrants in America: Virginia, Maryland, and New England ; Slavery and immigrants from Africa ; Other Europeans in Colonial America ...

In 1876, France gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States as a monument to republican liberty. Conceived by French abolitionist Édouard de Laboulaye and built by artist Frédéric Auguste ...

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“The 1619 Project,” published by the New York Times in 2019, posits that slavery is not a dark chapter of American history but rather a fundamental hallmark of our nation’s founding that persists to ...