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These Truths
A History of the United States
Jill Lepore
2018
W. W. Norton & Co.
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The Iron Cage of Erasure: American Indian Sovereignty in Jill Lepore’s 'These Truths'
Lepore’s framework insists that the “self-evident” truths of the nation’s founding were anything but.
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Ned Blackhawk
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Diplomatic History
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December 29, 2020
Book Review
Only Dead Metaphors Can Be Resurrected
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?
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George Blaustein
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European Journal Of American Studies
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June 30, 2020
Book Review
The Center Does Not Hold
Jill Lepore’s awkward embrace of the nation.
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Daniel Immerwahr
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The Nation
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October 29, 2019
Book Review
New Yorker Nation
In Jill Lepore's "These Truths," ideas produce other ideas. But new ideas arise from thinking humans, not from other ideas.
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Richard White
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Reviews In American History
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June 2, 2019
Book Review
The Vanishing Indians of “These Truths”
Jill Lepore's widely-praised history of the U.S. relies on the eventual exit of indigenous actors to make way for other dramas.
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Christine DeLucia
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Los Angeles Review of Books
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January 10, 2019
Book Review
The Limits of Liberal History
You can’t tell the story of America without the story of labor.
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Nathan J. Robinson
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Current Affairs
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October 28, 2018
Book Review
History for a Post-Fact America
A review of Jill Lepore's new book, which she has called the most ambitious single-volume American history written in generations.
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Alex Carp
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New York Review of Books
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October 19, 2018
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How America Gave Up on Its Own History
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.
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Yoni Appelbaum
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The Atlantic
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June 8, 2026
Bringing American History Back Home for the 250th
Challenges, opportunities, stakes.
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Johann N. Neem
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Perspectives on History
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July 14, 2025
Bridging the Gap
A new book portrays five American historians who published popular books that sacrificed neither intellectual depth nor political bite.
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Michael Kazin
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New York Review of Books
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June 5, 2025
