Chapel Talks

On Saturday, November 7th, from 3:00 – 5:00 pm, please come out to enjoy a Chapel Talk with author Michael Auslin, interviewed by Phil Lader on his latest book, National Treasure, How the Declaration of Independence Made America. An award-winning historian, Michael Auslin takes us from the boarding house in Philadelphia
where Jefferson put quill to paper to the Declaration’s long, harrowing, and ultimately hallowed afterlife. We follow the parchment as it is hauled out of a soon-to-be-burning Washington in 1814 and see it hidden in a dank cellar. We follow as it is posted in classrooms, recited on village greens, printed on handkerchiefs, and used to sell insurance and bundle coal. An inspiration to both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis in the Civil War, it has grown more important for each new generation. While FDR and Churchill celebrated its commitment to freedom from tyranny, the document itself was lowered into a bunker at Fort Knox. A powerful icon during the Cold War and Civil Rights Movement, its precious ink fading, it was painstakingly preserved and enshrined.