Close your eyes for a moment and picture American iconography. The Statue of Liberty or the Hollywood sign come to mind just as quickly as scenes like soldiers raising the flag over Iwo Jima in World War II. In a cultural sense, our immortalized portraits of athletes at their absolute heights are just as much part of the American canon as the historical imagery. Think of Muhammad Ali flexing over Sonny Liston, Babe Ruth calling his shot or Michael Jordan throwing up six fingers after his sixth NBA championship.

There's an argument to be made that those cultural touchstones are just as woven into the fabric of history (this is America, after all) as anything else, and it's an argument that the Game Changer exhibition is making.

Billed as bringing to life the "power of sports in bridging

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