NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION - NARA

DAVID M. RUBENSTEIN GALLERY, RECORDS OF RIGHTS

WASHINGTON DC, USA

2013

The new David M. Rubenstein Gallery provides new context for the Charters of Freedom - the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and the Bill of Rights - on view in the National Archives Rotunda.

The new exhibition begins with Rubenstein's 1297 Magna Carta and highlights the struggles of Americans to define and realize their civil rights through the stories of African Americans, women, and immigrants. Through documents, photographs, drawings, and films from National Archives holdings, it explores how forerunners sought to fulfill the promise of freedom set out in American founding documents.