This week on History Happy Hour: The Declaration of Independence came to life in a boarding house in Philadelphia under the hand of Thomas Jefferson, captured the spirit of the American cause, and lives to this day.

Scholar Michael Auslin has written a history of the Declaration of Independence that starts with its writing and winds through a long afterlife of 250 years. We’ll talk with him about his new book, National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America.

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Michael Auslin, PhD is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and is also a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. The best-selling author of four non-fiction books, he is a longtime contributor to the Wall Street Journal, and his writing appears in leading publications including The Washington Post and The Spectator. Formerly an associate professor of history at Yale, he was elected a member of the Royal Historical Society, and is a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Library of Congress and a fellow at the Society of the Cincinnati's American Revolution Institute.

This week on History Happy Hour: World War II was unprecedented in its scope and ferocity. The heroism of the men and women who won the war may be well documented, but we know too little about the pain and hardships the veterans endured upon their return home

In this encore episode, we discuss this with David Nasaw, author of the new book The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II.

David Nasaw is a professor of history at the City University of New York City. He has written ten books, two of which, Andrew Carnegie and The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Time of Joseph P Kennedy, were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. He has also written for The New Yorker, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal among others.

This week on History Happy Hour: To mark the 82nd Anniversary of D-Day, we will bring you a ninety-minute special edition of History Happy Hour looking back on the Normandy landings. Two of our favorite historians will join us to take your questions about D-Day – its planning, execution and aftermath.

Joe Balkoski wrote the book Beyond the Beachhead about the 29th Division, which landed on the Western half of Omaha Beach. John McManus wrote The Dead and Those About to Die on the First Division, which landed on the eastern half. But we won’t just be talking about Omaha Beach – we’ll take questions on all aspects of D-Day and its special place in WWII lore.

Don’t forget to send us questions in advance to info@historyhappyhour.com. And join us Sunday, at 4PM ET on History Happy Hour, where history is always on tap.

John McManus is a military historian, author, and professor of military history at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. He also served as a visiting professor at the U.S. Naval Academy. McManus has published thirteen critically acclaimed books on numerous American military history topics.