Date/Time
Date(s) - 02/26/2026
6:00 pm - 7:15 pm
Location
Independence Visitor Center
Categories
Thursday, February 26, 2026, explore how the Declaration of Independence inspired self-rule around the world. Learn about this enduring document’s impact and its global legacy established in Philadelphia 250 years ago. Examine how it reshaped a world of sovereign empires into sovereign states.
Join Independence National Historical Park and its partners, the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia and the Independence Historical Trust, for a deep conversation about the Declaration’s influence on independence movements in Central and South America and Haiti. The panel will be led by Dr. David Armitage, Professor of History at Harvard University and author of the book The Declarations of Independence: A Global History. It will include Dr. Julia Gaffield, Associate Professor of History at William & Mary, and author of the book The Haitian Declaration of Independence: Creation, Context, and Legacy; and Professor Joshua Simon, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University and author of The Ideology of Creole Revolution: Imperialism and Independence in American and Latin American Political Thought.
Free (a $10 donation is suggested), but pre-register, 6 p.m. EST to 7:15 p.m. EST. Independence Visitor Center, 599 Market St. https://wacphila.org/event/a250speakerseries/