Documents That Shaped America

Date and Time for this Past Event

• Sat, May 21, 2022 - Sat, Aug 27, 2022  10am - 5pm

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America’s founding was influenced by many different writers, philosophers, politicians and leaders. Beginning May 21, the Indiana Historical Society will showcase many of these significant historical written works in its latest exhibit, Documents That Shaped America.

Thanks to a new partnership with The Remnant Trust, the new exhibit features an impressive collection of early editions of some of the most important manuscripts in American history including a first edition 1788 U.S. Constitution (one of five known copies), a first edition of the Gettysburg Address, and an early edition of Life & Times of Frederick Douglass (1893). It also features texts that help build the major foundational pieces of Western democratic philosophy, such as a 1350 edition of the Magna Carta.