Experience the performance that Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor called “the best 17-minute civics lesson in the country.”
Freedom Rising is a stirring 17-minute journey from the founding of our nation to the present. This vibrant, theatrical production features 360-degree multimedia and a live narrator who tells the story of the U.S. Constitution—from its creation during the 1787 Constitutional Convention to the amendments and court decisions that continue to make the Constitution “the most powerful vision of human freedom ever expressed.”
Freedom Rising is performed hourly in the National Constitution Center’s Sidney Kimmel Theater when the museum is open.
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