Brenna Holland (she/her) • 07/23/2026
Announcement
Lecture
Date: August 19, 2026
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Subject Fields: American History / Studies, Atlantic History / Studies, British History / Studies, Colonial and Post-Colonial History / Studies
Join us for a David Center for the American Revolution Lecture from Michael Auslin, who will be discussing his new book: National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America.
The inspiring story of the Declaration of Independence—the first to take us from its drafting by Thomas Jefferson to today—charting the many lives of a document that captures the soul of America and has united generations around its defiant ideals, published for the 250th anniversary of America’s founding.
Quiet and politically untested, Thomas Jefferson was not the obvious choice to draft a statement of principles explaining why the American colonies were breaking ties with the King of England. His soaring rhetoric would inspire generations of Americans to live up to the founders’ dreams. National Treasure is the gripping story of our most revered founding relic, as a physical object and a set of ideals that have made America what it is today.
This event is hosted by the David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society. This event will take place on Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 7:00 p.m. ET at the Visitor Center in Washington Crossing and will also be livestreamed on Zoom.
Michael Auslin is the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Previously, he was an associate professor of history at Yale. He wrote National Treasure as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Library of Congress’s John W. Kluge Center and an American Heritage Partners Fellow at the Society of the Cincinnati’s American Revolution Institute. He writes a Substack, The Patowmack Packet, on Washington, DC, past and present, and lives in Virginia.
https://www.amphilsoc.org/events/national-treasure-how-declaration-independence-made-america
Contact Information: Thomas Johns (tjohns@amphilsoc.org)
Contact Email: tjohns@amphilsoc.org
URL: https://www.amphilsoc.org/events/national-treasure-how-declaration-independence…
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