An outstanding traveling exhibition on Freedom:  A History of US is on display through October 22 at Roanoke Rapids High School.  Courtesy of the Gilder Lehrman Collection, this six-panel exhibit is available for viewing in the principal's office and in the media center.  Teachers and students are invited to visit the campus to view and enjoy the outstanding collection.  For more information, call Anna Whittle at 252-537-8563.

Freedom: A History of US examines changing principles and realities of freedom from the Founding Era through the Civil War, and marks the first public exhibition of many personal letters, documents, and broadsides from the Gilder Lehrman Collection. Highlights include a rare 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence, a secretly printed draft and 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. The exhibition invites the modern-day viewer into the lives of the men and women who forged this nation, whether they arrived in this land by choice or in chains. Their words and images provide insight into the complexity of the past. Documents and photographs are from the Gilder Lehrman Collection.