As part of its 100th year anniversary, the renovated Freedom Tower will reopen to the general public as a museum on Oct. 15. The tower has undergone a two-year, $25 million rehab. Photo by Matias J.

MIAMI — The iconic Freedom Tower in Downtown Miami is turning 100 next year and the building is undergoing some major work ahead of its milestone. Downtown Miami has gone through many phases over the ...

There was a time when New York City stood alone as America’s shining city on a hill, a magnet for immigrants, capital, and the imagination of the free world. Built by waves of Irish, Germans, Jews, ...

Hundreds of antique items — a wedding dress, a bag of marbles, guayaberas, a stuffed toy, a record player, a postcard, treasured photos, and a crucifix — are on display in collections that make up the ...

MIAMI — There was nothing atypical about the young man. At the moment in the mid-1960s, he seemed as dazed as every other teenager I had seen walk into "El Refugio," the Spanish moniker for the Cuban ...

As Miami’s Freedom Tower marks its centennial, hundreds gathered Tuesday to celebrate the re-opening of the iconic landmark. The tower boasts an eclectic history — having once housed Miami’s first ...

MIAMI — Peering at artifacts from an era of mass immigration into South Florida, Miriam Castro recalls snapshots from her own journey as an exiled young girl. Castro was just 9 in August 1961 when she ...

NEW YORK -- Even without the name, the symbolism of the Freedom Tower as an American response to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks was hard to miss. The original architect designed a twisting form imitating ...