Details about this lecture and registration information will be posted closer to the event.
Dr. Emily Sneff is a scholar of early American history and a leading expert on the Declaration of Independence. She is the consulting curator for exhibitions planned for the country’s Semiquincentennial including The Declaration’s Journey at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Window to Revolution: Pennsylvania Germans and the War for Independence at Historic Trappe, Pennsylvania. Her book When the Declaration of Independence Was News will be published in April 2026 with Oxford University Press.
This is the second of two virtual presentations by Dr. Sneff. The first will be held on November 20, 2026, at 6pm CT. Click here to register for November 20.
The lectures are cosponsored by the Max Kade Institute for German American Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the Friends of the Max Kade Institute, the German Society of Pennsylvania’s Horner Library, and the German Historical Institute-Washington, D.C.