National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America with author Michael Auslin, PhD: Episode 307

This week on History Happy Hour: The Declaration of Independence came to life in a boarding house in Philadelphia under the hand of Thomas Jefferson, captured the spirit of the American cause, and lives to this day.

Scholar Michael Auslin has written a history of the Declaration of Independence that starts with its writing and winds through a long afterlife of 250 years. We’ll talk with him about his new book, National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America.

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Michael Auslin, PhD is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and is also a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. The best-selling author of four non-fiction books, he is a longtime contributor to the Wall Street Journal, and his writing appears in leading publications including The Washington Post and The Spectator. Formerly an associate professor of history at Yale, he was elected a member of the Royal Historical Society, and is a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Library of Congress and a fellow at the Society of the Cincinnati's American Revolution Institute.