Jill Lepore

What Jill Lepore Got Right—And Wrong—About January 6 Committee

The historian's critique of the committee's report—that it focused too narrowly on Trump and not enough on the far right movement—is undercut by a false equivalency that election denial and conspiratorial thinking are equally prevalent on the left and right of the spectrum. 

Will We Need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission for the Trump Years?

Jill Lepore's recent op ed suggests that the real fight is to preserve documentary evidence for future historians to render judgment on Trump. That view is not universally shared among historians. 

Harvard historian Jill Lepore on what “Why We’re Polarized” gets wrong

by Ezra Klein

Jill Lepore is a Harvard historian, a New Yorker contributor, the author of These Truths, and one of my favorite past guests on The Ezra Klein Show. But in this episode of the show, the tables are turned: I’m in the hot seat, and Lepore has some questions. Hard ones.

Should historians read their own book?

by Andy Seal

Andy Seal argues historians shouldn't read their own books.

The Lingering of Loss

by Jill Lepore

My best friend left her laptop to me in her will. Twenty years later, I turned it on and began my inquest.

Jill Lepore Reviews Seven New Books About the Apollo 11 Mission

by Jill Lepore

“At no point before the actual moon landing did any majority of Americans support the mission to land on the moon,” Lepore says in this podcast.

Political Leadership and the Need for a New American Story

by Walter G. Moss

Both Lincoln and FDR understood that to reach people, to motivate them, to win them over, a president had to appeal to their emotions, and storytelling was one way of doing so.

A New Americanism

by Jill Lepore

Why a Nation Needs a National Story

How Historian Jill Lepore Found a Whole New Story to Tell About American History

The Harvard historian on her opus ‘These Truths,’ the Me Too movement, and Trump’s cartoon version of populism

Jill Lepore on writing the story of America

In an interview with CHE she talks about the rise and fall of the fact and how women’s intellectual authority is undermined.

Why did Jill Lepore write an epic of U.S. history?

It’s a long story.

NYT celebrates Jill Lepore’s new book on the story of America

The Times notes that it’s perfectly timed.

Jill Lepore’s new book is … a long, steady view of American History

Just a few years ago, “an old-fashioned civics book” might have sounded like a cure for insomnia; now it sounds like a survival guide.

In a new lecture Jill Lepore ponders what it’s like to write history at a time of polarization

“Conservatives rested their claim to political power on winning elections, and perhaps above all on winning history.”

Harvard’s Jill Lepore explains how Wonder Woman plays into her history of feminism

Wonder Woman, created in the 1940s, proves that feminism didn’t come in waves.

Jill Lepore: Americans Aren't Just Divided Politically, They're Divided Over History Too

“All politics is really an argument about the relationship between the past and the future. And the more polarized our politics has become, the more polarized our past.”

In an interview Jill Lepore explains how she writes and the writers she admires most

One of her favorites is John Hersey.

Jill Lepore attended the GOP convention

Here’s what she saw. (Interview.)

Jill Lepore explains why she wrote a book about a man who’s unbearable

It’s about Joe Gould (1889-1957), a racist, anti-Semite Harvard graduate who claimed to have written the longest book.

Jill Lepore says Wonder Woman is the missing link in the history of feminism

"The book argues against the idea that the struggle for woman’s equality came in waves."