Jill Lepore

A new book portrays five American historians who published popular books that sacrificed neither intellectual depth nor political bite.

What role do we really want history to be playing in our public life? And is the history we have actually doing that work?

What happens when radical historians write for the public.

The controversial historian drew criticism from both left and right. We need more like him today.

Historians should reject nationalism and help readers to avoid its dangers.

Right and left are united in a vulgar form of historicism.

Thomas Jefferson was a proponent of open migration. But who qualified as a refugee?

How Henry Wadsworth Longfellow interpreted Reconstruction by translating Dante.

There is no American history without the histories of Indigenous and enslaved peoples. And this past has consequences today.

Our foremothers wove spiritual beliefs, cultural values, and historical knowledge into their flax, wool, silk, and cotton webs.

The filmmaker and photographer’s work shows late-sixties Black activism to be a joyful, community-building project.

Historians' prohibition on 'presentism' crumbles under the weight of events.

The New York Times’ 1619 Project launched with the best of intentions, but has been undermined by some of its claims.

For much of our clerisy, the nation is an anachronism or disgrace.

H.W. Brands' new one-volume history of the American West reads too much like a movie we’ve already seen.

It's time to shift the social contract of education away from short-term job training toward long-term development.

Business schools fetishize innovation, but their heroes succeeded due to manipulation of corporate law, not personal brilliance.