Name: Declaration of Independence at 250 Years with Jeffrey Rosen
Start: 2026-05-04T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-05-04T20:30:00-05:00
Location: University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire

Declaration of Independence at 250 Years with Jeffrey Rosen

Celebrate 250 years of the Declaration with Jeffrey Rosen—author, legal scholar, and president of the National Constitution Center.
About this Event

Declaration of Independence: 250 Years of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness with Jeffrey Rosen

Jeffrey Rosen is the President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, where he hosts We the People, a weekly podcast of constitutional debate. He is also a professor of law at the George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic. He was previously the legal affairs editor of The New Republic and a staff writer for the New Yorker.

Rosen’s new book is the New York Times bestselling The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America. His other books include the New York Times bestseller Conversations with RBG: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law as well as biographies of Louis Brandeis and William Howard Taft.

Rosen is a graduate of Harvard College; Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar; and Yale Law School. In 2024, the French government recognized him as a Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.