The historian and Harvard professor reflects on the Republican’s second term: ‘His hold on power is extraordinarily tenuous.

With a song from 1759 as a mile marker, pianist Lara Downes and historian Jill Lepore examine what this land was like just ...

Jill Lepore knows her stuff. She’s a staff writer at The New Yorker, a professor at Harvard, and the author of a new book, We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution, that examines the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jill Lepore's history of the Constitution includes a colorful cast of characters and makes a case for it as a living document that ...

Jill Lepore is unquestionably one of America’s best historians; it’s fair to say she’s one of its best writers too. Her books on subjects ranging from King Philip’s War and Jane Franklin to Wonder ...

2020-06-06T20:30:08-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/e2b/20200606203353002_hd.jpgAuthor and historian Jill Lepore offered her thoughts on the historical legacy of ...

Harvard’s Jill Lepore is a triple threat: lauded historian, prominent legal scholar and New Yorker journalist. She approaches the American experiment from myriad angles, drawing on protagonists such ...

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times. In “We the People,” the Harvard historian worries that the glacial amendment process is leading the country to crisis. By Aziz Z ...