Title: Enlightening the world
Description: In *Enlightening the World: The Creation of the Statue of Liberty* Yasmin Sabina Khan takes a fresh look at the fascinating story behind the creation of the statue. The author explores the historical period – the idea for a monument to liberty was conceived at the end of the American Civil War – along with the lives of the people central to the statue’s creation. Khan also closely examines the monument itself, describing the sculptural, architectural, and structural design and construction and interpreting the meanings of the statue’s symbols of liberty.
Subjects: Buildings, structures, bleeding Kansas, Statue of Liberty, statue of liberty design, Monuments, History, Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.), slavery, Liberty Enlightening the World, Design and construction, American War for Independence, Relations, symbolism, American Civil War, French Third Republic, Statue of Liberty history, Bartholdi, Statue of liberty (new york, n.y.)", Monuments, united states, New york (n.y.), buildings, structures, etc., United states, relations, france, France, foreign relations, united states, Bartholdi, frederic auguste, 1834-1904
Places: New York, Paris, Colmar, Bedloe's Island, Liberty Island
People: Auguste Bartholdi, Edouard Laboulaye, Richard Morris Hunt, Gustave Eiffel, Viollet-le-Duc, Ulysses S. Grant, Marquis de Lafayette, Charles Sumner, Abraham Lincoln
Time periods: 19th century