Read the Revolution Speaker Series with David Armitage

Dr. David Armitage, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University, will join the Museum on Thursday, Nov. 13, at 6:30 p.m. to present the first public program in the Museum’s 2025-2026 Read the Revolution Speaker Series with a hybrid lecture and discussion inspired by his award-winning book, The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (2007) and the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026. Following the presentation, Museum President and CEO Dr. R. Scott Stephenson will host an interview conversation and facilitate a live Q&A with both onsite and online audiences.  

This special program will be held in the Museum’s third-floor Liberty Hall and will be broadcast live via Zoom. Guests with onsite tickets are invited to arrive early to view The Declaration’s Journey from 5:15 p.m. to 6 p.m. Doors open to Liberty Hall at 6 p.m. for onsite guests to see a featured artifact, enjoy refreshments at a cash bar, and purchase signed copies of the featured book.  

About Dr. David Armitage

David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University and an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College. Cambridge. He is the author or editor of nineteen books, among them The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2000), The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (2007), The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760-1840 (2010), The History Manifesto (2014), and Civil Wars: A History in Ideas (2017). A prize-winning author and teacher, he has lectured on six continents and has held fellowships and visiting positions in Australia, Britain, China, France, Germany, South Korea, and the United States.