David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History, Harvard University
Guest Speaker - Class of Fall 2019
Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at the New Yorker. She is the author of a dozen books, including Book of Ages: the Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin (Knopf, 2013), The Secret History of Wonder Woman (Knopf, 2014), These Truths: A History of the United States (W.W. Norton, 2018), and, most recently, This America: The Case for the Nation (W.W. Norton, 2019). In addition to her regular essays in the New Yorker, Lepore’s writing on American history, law, literature, and politics has also appeared in the New York Times, Times Literary Supplement, Journal of American History, Foreign Affairs, Yale Law Journal, American Scholar, andAmerican Quarterly. A recipient of the American History Book Prize, Bancroft Prize, Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, and Berkshire Prize, among others, Lepore has also been a finalist in nonfiction for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
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American Academy Lecture
These Truths: A History of the United States
Historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore offers a new account of the grand American experiment.
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Oct
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These Truths: A History of the United States, with Jill Lepore
Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore offers an account of the grand American experiment via intertwined histories of American politics, law, journalism, and technology—from the colonial town meeting to the nineteenth-century party machine, from talk radio to twenty-first-centu ...