Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her many books include The Secret History of Wonder Woman, a national bestseller, and Book of Ages, a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
ARTICLES FEATURING JILL
The Ghosts of Cambridge
Alex Langstaff reviews Jill Lepore’s “If Then” about the Cold War origins of computational data mining and its seedy alliance with behavioral psychology....
A Nation of Nations Must Still Be a Nation: On Nationalism, Globalization, and Writing History
Jill Lepore’s book argues for a shared national history, but fails to explain what that history looks like....
The Vanishing Indians of “These Truths”
A popular history of the United States has a notable omission....
What Gets Saved and What Gets Lost: An Interview with Jill Lepore
Jill Lepore: “I wanted to tell Jane Franklin’s story as a way to ask readers to think about how history gets written: what gets saved and what gets lost."...
The More Things Change: Jill Lepore's History of Life and Death
ADOLESCENCE WAS BORN a little more than a century ago, in Worcester, Massachusetts. The term has a long history — “...
