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####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 4, 2026** 

 12:00PM - 01:15PM EST 

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## The American Revolution in Global Perspective

**This session is open to the public and will be recorded.** [**Registration is required**](https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0szCPlVSSa63mH4itoeO9w#/registration) **for this Zoom webinar.**

This forum marks the US semiquincentennial with a panel on the impact of the American Revolution and US Declaration of Independence on international affairs in the past 250 years.

### Speakers

- **Danielle Allen**, James Bryant Conant University Professor, Harvard University; Director, Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation, Harvard Kennedy School; Director, Democratic Knowledge Project-Learn, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
- **David Armitage**, Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Department of History; Chair, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University.
- **Elisabeth Leake**, Lee E. Dirks Professor in Diplomatic History, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

### Chair

- **Erez Manela**, Acting Center Director (2025–2026); Director, Graduate Student Programs; Faculty Associate. Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.

### Contact

**Sarah Banse**  
<sarahbanse@wcfia.harvard.edu>

*Image:* [*The Belligerent Plenipo's*](https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3f03795/) */ T. Colley, fect., LC-DIG-ppmsca-37323. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Cartoon Prints, British*



 

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