This story starts with William Coblenz, a government worker in Washington, D.C., who visited the National Archives during a lunch break in 1946, right after the Allies had won World War II. Seeing the ...

Bill Kemp Archivist/historian McLean County Museum of History Aug 2, 2015 Aug 2, 2015 0 Which of the following seminal documents in American history have been exhibited and seen by thousands of people ...

LIMA — In the late 1940s, America was flush with victory in World War II, growing as a world power and on the doorstep of unprecedented prosperity. President Harry Truman and other national leaders ...

The Freedom Train was a seven-car train that traveled across the United States from September 1947 until January 1949. It contained some of the country's most priceless historical documents. Then ...

Inside the York Fairgrounds, Yorkers saw original documents and flags such as: Thomas Jefferson’s rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, George Washington’s own copy of the Constitution, ...

ENID, Okla. — An exhibit recounting the 1947 Freedom Train will open June 14 with hundreds of rare historical documents and other period pieces. “The Freedom Train Across the Heart of America” ...