Name: National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America
Start: 2026-05-05T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-05-05T20:00:00-04:00
Location: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

Kennedy Library Forum | National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America
About this Event

From its drafting by Thomas Jefferson to today, award-winning historian Michael Auslin’s National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America charts the many lives of a document that captures the soul of America and has united generations around its defiant ideals. As the 250th anniversary of America’s founding approaches, Auslin discusses the Declaration as a physical object and a set of ideals that have made America what it is today with Arun Rath, Executive Editor and Host at GBH.