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Jill Lepore
AuthorBio
Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University, where she teaches classes in evidence, historical methods, the humanities, and American political history. Her one-semester undergraduate course on the history of the United States features weekly debates in which students use primary sources to argue over competing historical interpretations of turning points in American history. She is the author of The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity (winner of the Bancroft Prize), New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), The Secret History of Wonder Woman (winner of the American History Book Prize), and many other titles. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker, host of the podcast The Last Archive, and she was named the winner of the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought in 2021.Jill Lepore Books
January 6 and the Politics of History
Jim DownsThe Deadline: Essays
Jill LeporeHow Rights Went Wrong
Jamal GreeneIf Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
Jill LeporeSmithsonian American Women
Smithsonian InstitutionThink in Public
Sharon MarcusThis America: The Case for the Nation
Jill LeporeThese Truths: A History of the United States
Jill LeporeIt's Up to the Women
Eleanor RooseveltJoe Gould's Teeth
Jill LeporeThe Secret History of Wonder Woman
Jill LeporeBook of Ages
Jill LeporeThe Mansion of Happiness
Jill LeporeThe Name of War
Jill LeporeBlindspot
Jane KamenskyNew York Burning
Jill LeporeA Is for American
Jill Lepore