The Declaration of Independence: America’s Birth Certificate from Conception to Celebration Monday

Upcoming Events

When

12:00 am - 12:00 am

Where

Event Type

Historical

Historian Joel Farkas discusses the development of the document, from the Magna Carta (1215) to the French and Indian War, the Declaration of Independence, the Revolutionary War, the French Revolution (and Napoleon), the War of 1812, to today. Joel Farkas is a graduate of The Ohio State University, an Officer in the United States Army, a National Park Service volunteer docent at Washington’s Headquarters, Morristown, NJ, a lecturer at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Rutgers University, and a lecturer at Florham Institute for Lifelong Learning at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Hickory Corner Library.

This virtual program takes place on Monday, April 6 at 7:00 pm.

Registration with an email is required, so the library can send you a link to connect through GoTo Meeting. You will receive the link approximately 24 hours before the program.

Contact Name: Mercer County Library System

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