# Weatherhead Forum: The American Revolution in Global Perspective ft. David Armitage and Erez Manela #### calendar\_today Date and Time **March 4, 2026** 12:00PM - 01:15PM EST [ Link to Event Page arrow\_circle\_right ](https://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/event/special-event-weatherhead-forum-03-04-26?occ_id=0) ## **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. ## [View a recording here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYGP1qNUaQQ) ### **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** *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* Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://1776.history.fas.harvard.edu/node/341/event-feed.ics) Copy link link