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When the crated monument of the statue of liberty arrived in New York Harbor, few could have foreseen the central place it would come to occupy in the American imagination. Join historian Edward Berenson, Director of the Institute of French Studies at NYU, as he explores the improbable history of the statue and the many and competing conceptions of American freedom it has come to represent.