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
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 — “...
