The Museum of Connecticut History is pleased to host a new, temporary exhibit, “Freedom: A History of US” which was developed by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. This panel exhibition “will document and illustrate critical figures and events while tracing the evolving concept of freedom from founding to today. Among the highlights are: a rare 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence, an official copy of the US Constitution, Lincoln’s handwritten notes of speeches, and letters by leading figures such as Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony and Martin Luther King. Some of the more poignant descriptions of the meaning of freedom to the common man are found in the personal letters of Civil War soldiers, which speak to the pain and pride of fighting for national ideals.”
An accompanying Educator’s Guide is available here (LINK TO GUIDE)
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