Read the Revolution with David Armitage

Dr. David Armitage, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University, joined the Museum on Thursday, Nov. 13, for a 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.

About 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.