Every answer she gives has something worth chewing over for weeks. And beyond all that, Lepore is just damn fun to talk to. But more than that, it’s a conversation about who we are as a country, and how that self-definition is always contested and constantly in flux. This is a conversation about those revolutions. “The American Revolution did not begin in 1775 and it didn’t end when the war was over,” Lepore writes. She’s the kind of history teacher everyone wishes they’d had, able to effortlessly connect the events and themes of American history to make sense of our past and clarify our present.
She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker, where her essays include histories of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, debt, voting, torture, reproductive rights, the right to privacy, the gun debate, and the right to die. Jill Lepore is a Harvard historian, a New Yorker contributor, and the author of These Truths, a dazzling one-volume synthesis of American history. JILL LEPORE is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University.
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