NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Annie Polland, executive director of the American Jewish Historical Society, about Emma Lazarus, and the history behind her famous poem, The New Colossus.

Ken Cuccinelli II, acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, responded to reporters’ questions recently about Emma Lazarus’s famous poem “The New Colossus.” He wanted ...

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 ...

Acosta asked Miller about the iconic poem “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus that is inscribed at the base of the State of Liberty, which reads: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled ...

Lazarus, a Jewish woman and prolific writer, was commissioned in 1883 for the “Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue of Liberty” to raise money for the ...

Lazarus wrote “The New Colossus” as a contribution to a campaign to raise funds for a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty, which had been donated to the United States by France.

For one auction, poet Emma Lazarus wrote a piece that later went on to cement Lady Liberty’s symbol not only to freedom but to immigration as well, forever linking the poet, poem and statue ...

Emma Lazarus’ poem “The New Colossus,” penned 140 years ago and affixed to the Statue of Liberty 120 years ago, is an enduring celebration of that legacy.