Jill Lepore

What is living and what is dead in our memory of the American Revolution.

Unable to agree on how to interpret the American story, the country’s schools, universities, and political institutions have stopped trying to tell it at all.

The difficulty of amending the Constitution does not mean that it is a flawed and outdated relic of a distant past.

The captivity narrative as creation myth.

Globalism is out. Nationalism is in. Progressives who think they can jump aboard are dangerously naive.

Lepore’s framework insists that the “self-evident” truths of the nation’s founding were anything but.

Historical narratives of the United States have never not been shaped by an anxiety about the end of it all. Are we a new Rome or a new Zion?

Jill Lepore’s awkward embrace of the nation.

In Jill Lepore's "These Truths," ideas produce other ideas. But new ideas arise from thinking humans, not from other ideas.

Jill Lepore's widely-praised history of the U.S. relies on the eventual exit of indigenous actors to make way for other dramas.

You can’t tell the story of America without the story of labor.

A review of Jill Lepore's new book, which she has called the most ambitious single-volume American history written in generations.

The hottest resistance talking aheads during Trump 2.0 are academics. What happened?

The semiquincentennial and why nostalgia can’t meet the moment.

The traditional narrative of an integrationist vs. Black Power binary fades in the context of global movements for self-determination.

A ‘new history’ of the politicized classroom misses the mark.

She lived for 97 years. Only 24 of them were with Alexander Hamilton.

These proposals sought to change the United States’ name, abolish the presidency, and set a limit on personal fortunes, among other measures.

“How are free people supposed to stay free? One short answer: don’t trust anyone over thirty.”

Challenges, opportunities, stakes.