Saving the Declaration of Independence: How Clerks, Scientists, and Bureaucrats Preserved a National Treasure

Few documents have captured the soul of America like the Declaration of Independence. Within a few decades after the Founding Fathers put pen to parchment 250 years ago, the document was threatened with destruction and began to fade. Historian Michael Auslin brings to life the physical history of America’s founding document from its near-miraculous rescue during the War of 1812 to the work to preserve it from the toll of time.