The Barack Obama Presidency: Hope and Change

The exhibition focuses on issues and topics from the Obama administration: 2008 and 2012 elections, Great Recession, Health Care, Immigration, Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Combating Terrorism, Climate Change and the Environment, and Race Relations. The exhibition includes photographs, facsimile documents, and objects on loan from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the Barack Obama Presidential Library. Editorial cartoons by Mike Keefe, Steve Kelley, and Signe Wilkinson further illustrate the themes. In addition, items related to the Presidential Debates at Hofstra University in 2008 and 2012, on loan from the University Archives, will be on view.