@legalruling {718341, title = {Brief of American Historians as Amici Curiae Supporting Respondents (Jan. 29, 2024) (No. 23-719)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-719/298999/20240129110006501_23-719\%20bsac\%20American\%20Historians\%20Final.pdf}, author = {Jill Lepore, David Blight, Drew Gilpin Faust, John Fabian Witt} } @magazinearticle {713331, title = {The Mistrial: What happened when the US failed to prosecute an insurrectionist ex-president}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {December 11, 2023}, year = {2023}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12/11/what-happened-when-the-us-failed-to-prosecute-an-ex-president }, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {707831, title = {The World According to Elon Musk{\textquoteright}s Grandfather}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {September 19, 2023}, year = {2023}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-world-according-to-elon-musks-grandfather}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {707711, title = {The X-Man: How Elon Musk went from superhero to supervillain}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {September 11, 2023}, year = {2023}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/18/elon-musk-walter-isaacson-book-review}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {706246, title = {The Everyman Library}, journal = {The New York Review of Books}, volume = {August 27, 2023}, year = {2023}, url = {https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/08/27/the-everyman-library/}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {706241, title = {Watching Childhood End in My Backyard}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {August 26, 2023}, year = {2023}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/watching-childhood-end-in-my-back-yard}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {704261, title = {The Bear in Your Backyard}, journal = {The New Yorker}, number = {July 24, 2023}, year = {2023}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/24/eight-bears-mythic-past-and-imperiled-future-gloria-dickie-book-review}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {703936, title = {What We Owe Our Trees}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {May 22, 2023}, year = {2023}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/29/what-we-owe-our-trees}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {703931, title = {The View from Inside Beatlemania}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {June 10, 2023}, year = {2023}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/the-view-from-inside-beatlemania}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @newspaperarticle {703926, title = {How to Stave Off Constitutional Extinction}, journal = {The New York Times}, volume = {July 1, 2023}, year = {2023}, url = {https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/opinion/constitutional-amendments-american-history.html}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {699051, title = {Data Driven: What{\textquoteright}s It All For?}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2023}, url = {April 3, 2023}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @book {698941, title = {Who Killed Truth? A History of Evidence (an audiobook)}, year = {2023}, publisher = {Pushkin Industries}, organization = {Pushkin Industries}, address = {New York}, abstract = { Many historians and cultural observers argue we live in a post-truth world{\textemdash}but\ if truth is dead, who killed it? And how did it die? Join celebrated historian Jill Lepore as she cracks the case by examining key moments in the history of truth, doubt, and evidence\ across the last century. \  In\ Who Killed Truth?\ acclaimed Harvard historian and\ New Yorker\ staff writer Jill Lepore traces the origins of our current post-truth crisis. In a series of spellbinding stories, Lepore investigates murders, hoaxes, lies and delusions to reckon with the instability of truth and fiction in the twenty-first century. Listeners will follow Lepore through a fascinating, erudite, and antic journey through the thorny problem of how we know what we know, and why it seems sometimes as if we don{\textquoteright}t know anything at all anymore.\  \  Revisiting\ key\ moments in\ U.S.\ history--from\ the Scopes Monkey Trial\ in 1925 to\ the 1977 National Women{\textquoteright}s Convention\ to the first election predicted by computer, and more--Lepore uncovers the secrets of the past the way a detective might, hot on the trail of the killer of\ truth. \  Please note: This collection includes content that has been previously released in The Last Archive podcast. }, url = {https://www.audible.com/pd/Who-Killed-Truth-Audiobook/B0C6BZNKRK}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @book {698936, title = {The American Beast: Essays on Politics, 2012-2022}, year = {2023}, publisher = {John Murray}, organization = {John Murray}, address = {London}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {698931, title = {Pay Dirt: What we learn from seed catalogs}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {March 13, 2023}, year = {2023}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/20/what-we-learn-from-leafing-through-seed-catalogues}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @book {697744, title = {These Truths: A History of the United States. Inquiry Edition}, year = {2023}, publisher = {W.W. Norton}, organization = {W.W. Norton}, address = {New York}, abstract = {The United States was founded on a set of {\textquotedblleft}self-evident{\textquotedblright} truths: political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. But how well has the nation{\textemdash}from its revolutionary birth to our fractious present{\textemdash}lived up to these founding ideals? In an absorbing, character-driven narrative, acclaimed historian Jill Lepore engages this urgent question. Now expanded into a two-volume textbook, the Inquiry Edition is a new kind of history text{\textemdash}one that highlights the importance of analyzing evidence and practicing historical inquiry to help students develop civic skills relevant to their lives far beyond the course.}, url = {https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324046424}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @inbook {697460, title = {Introduction: Beatleland.}, booktitle = {Paul McCartney, 1964: Eyes of the Storm.}, year = {2023}, publisher = {Penguin and Norton}, organization = {Penguin and Norton}, address = {London and New York}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {697201, title = {What the January Sixth Report is Missing}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {January 16, 2023}, year = {2023}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/16/what-the-january-6th-report-is-missing}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @book {697165, title = {The Deadline: Essays}, year = {2023}, publisher = {W.W. Norton}, organization = {W.W. Norton}, address = {New York}, abstract = { A book to be read and kept for posterity, The Deadline is the art of the essay at its best. \  Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style, brought a transporting freshness and a literary vivacity to everything from profiles of long-dead writers to urgent constitutional analysis to an unsparing scrutiny of the woeful affairs of the nation itself. The astonishing essays collected in The Deadline offer a prismatic portrait of Americans{\textquoteright} techno-utopianism, frantic fractiousness, and unprecedented{\textemdash}but armed{\textemdash}aimlessness. From lockdowns and race commissions to Bratz dolls and bicycles, to the losses that haunt Lepore{\textquoteright}s life, these essays again and again cross what she calls the deadline, the {\textquotedblleft}river of time that divides the quick from the dead.{\textquotedblright} Echoing Gore Vidal{\textquoteright}s United States in its massive intellectual erudition, The Deadline, with its remarkable juxtaposition of the political and the personal, challenges the very nature of the essay{\textemdash}and of history{\textemdash}itself. }, url = {https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631496127}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {697182, title = {Parent Trap}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {March 14, 2022}, year = {2022}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/03/21/why-the-school-wars-still-rage}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {697181, title = {Why There Are No Women in the Constitution}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {May 4, 2022}, year = {2022}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-there-are-no-women-in-the-constitution}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {697179, title = {The Morning After}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {May 25, 2022}, year = {2022}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/23/after-the-failed-senate-bill-on-abortion-justice-alito}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {697178, title = {Easy Rider}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {May 23, 2022}, year = {2022}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/30/bicycles-have-evolved-have-we-jody-rosen-two-wheels-good}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @webarticle {697176, title = {The Supreme Court{\textquoteright}s Selective Memory}, journal = {The New Yorker}, number = {June 24, 2022}, year = {2022}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-supreme-courts-selective-memory-on-gun-rights}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @webarticle {697175, title = {My Italian Grandmother}, journal = {The New Yorker}, number = {July 12, 2022}, year = {2022}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/culture/dept-of-heirlooms/the-rescued-portrait-of-my-italian-grandmother}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {697173, title = {Moving Right Along}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {July 25, 2022}, year = {2022}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/07/25/the-vw-bus-took-the-sixties-on-the-road-now-its-getting-a-twenty-first-century-makeover}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {697171, title = {Bringing Up Babies}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {August 15, 2022}, year = {2022}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/15/bringing-back-the-woolly-mammoth}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @webarticle {697170, title = {The United States{\textquoteright}s Unamendable Constitution}, journal = {The New Yorker}, number = {October 26, 2022}, year = {2022}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-united-states-unamendable-constitution}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {697169, title = {The Case Against the Twitter Apology}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {November 7, 2022}, year = {2022}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/14/the-case-against-the-twitter-apology-matthew-ichihashi-potts-forgiveness-danya-ruttenberg-on-repentance-and-repair}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {697168, title = {Squawk on the Wild Side}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {November 28, 2022}, year = {2022}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/28/the-return-of-the-wild-turkey}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {697167, title = {Counter-espionage}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {December 5, 2022}, year = {2022}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/05/is-mick-herron-the-best-spy-novelist-of-his-generation}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @newspaperarticle {686068, title = {Elon Musk Is Building a Sci-Fi World, and the Rest of Us Are Trapped in It}, journal = {The New York Times}, volume = {November 4}, year = {2021}, url = {https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/opinion/elon-musk-capitalism.html}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @article {686067, title = {New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan}, journal = {Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation}, volume = {2}, number = {2}, year = {2021}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {684601, title = {The Forest for the Trees}, journal = {The New Yorker}, number = {November 28, 2021}, year = {2021}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/06/the-lessons-of-the-lorax}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @newspaperarticle {684600, title = {Is Society Coming Apart?}, journal = {The Guardian}, number = {November 25, 2021}, year = {2021}, url = {https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/nov/25/society-thatcher-reagan-covid-pandemic}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {684054, title = {The Invention of the Week}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {November 21, 2021}, year = {2021}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/22/how-the-week-organizes-and-tyrannizes-our-lives-david-m-henken-book}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {684053, title = {The Elephant Who Could Be a Person}, journal = {The Atlantic}, volume = {November 15, 2021}, year = {2021}, url = {https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/happy-elephant-bronx-zoo-nhrp-lawsuit/620672/}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @newspaperarticle {680005, title = {Mission Impossible: How Facebook Failed}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {August 2, 2021}, year = {2021}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/02/facebooks-broken-vows}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {674409, title = {It{\textquoteright}s Just Too Much: Has Burnout Become the Human Condition?}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {May 24, 2021}, year = {2021}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/24/burnout-modern-affliction-or-human-condition}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {672470, title = {The Age of Consent: Writing and Rewriting Constitutions}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {March 29, 2021}, year = {2021}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/29/when-constitutions-took-over-the-world}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @inbook {666645, title = {Foreword to Jamal Greene, How Rights Went Wrong}, booktitle = {How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart}, year = {2021}, publisher = {Houghton Mifflin Harcourt}, organization = {Houghton Mifflin Harcourt}, address = {New York}, url = {https://www.amazon.com/How-Rights-Went-Wrong-Obsession/dp/1328518116/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1\&keywords=jamal+greene+how+rights+went+wrong\&qid=1605551885\&s=books\&sr=1-1}, author = {Jamal Greene} } @magazinearticle {666628, title = {The Trump Papers}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {November 23, 2020}, year = {2020}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/23/will-trump-burn-the-evidence}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @webarticle {666581, title = {We Don{\textquoteright}t Want to Fix the Program}, journal = {Public Books}, year = {2020}, url = {https://www.publicbooks.org/we-dont-want-the-program-jill-lepore-on-how-tech-cant-fix-democracy/?utm_source=PUBLIC+BOOKS+Newsletter\&utm_campaign=d5cb02ce61-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_11_06\&utm_medium=email\&utm_term=0_d048c39403-d5cb02ce61-181049632}, author = {Boyd, Dana} } @magazinearticle {666201, title = {How "America the Beautiful" Was Born}, journal = {National Geographic}, volume = {November 3, 2020}, year = {2020}, url = {https://apple.news/AyjceHFD5RPqJtF18uA7eig }, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {666176, title = {Countdown}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {November 1, 2020}, year = {2020}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/09/the-trouble-with-election-projections}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @article {665035, title = {Speed and American Elections}, journal = {Science}, volume = {370}, number = {6514}, year = {2020}, url = {https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6514/267.summary}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @webarticle {665034, title = {October Surprise}, journal = {newyorker.com}, number = {October 6, 2020}, year = {2020}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/an-october-surprise-in-new-england}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @newspaperarticle {665033, title = {Let History, Not Partisans, Prosecute Trump}, journal = {Washington Post}, volume = {October 16, 2020}, year = {2020}, url = {https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/truth-reconciliation-tribunal-trump-historians/2020/10/16/84026810-0e88-11eb-b1e8-16b59b92b36d_story.html}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @inbook {664143, title = {From Sea to Shining Sea}, booktitle = {America the Beautiful: A Story in Photographs}, year = {2020}, pages = {17-21}, publisher = {National Geographic}, organization = {National Geographic}, address = {Washington, DC}, url = {https://www.amazon.com/America-Beautiful-Photographs-National-Geographic/dp/1426221428}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @webarticle {663648, title = {Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Great Equalizer}, journal = {newyorker.com}, number = {September 18, 2020}, year = {2020}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/ruth-bader-ginsburg-supreme-court-the-great-equalizer-obituary}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @article {663647, title = {Scientists Use Big Data to Sway Elections and Predict Riots: Welcome to the 1960s}, journal = {Nature}, volume = {585}, number = {September 16, 2020}, year = {2020}, pages = {348-350}, url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02607-8}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {662997, title = {These Four Walls: Living Indoors}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {September 7, 2020}, year = {2020}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/07/is-staying-in-staying-safe}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {660514, title = {All the King{\textquoteright}s Data: Simulation, automation, and the election of John F. Kennedy}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {August 3, 2020}, year = {2020}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/03/how-the-simulmatics-corporation-invented-the-future}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {655681, title = {The Long Blue Line: Inventing the Police}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {July 13, 2020}, year = {2020}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/the-invention-of-the-police}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {654647, title = {The Riot Report: What government commissions say about protests for racial justice}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {June 22, 2020}, year = {2020}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/22/the-history-of-the-riot-report}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {651848, title = {Blood on the Green: Kent State and the war that never ended}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {May 4, 2020}, year = {2020}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/04/kent-state-and-the-war-that-never-ended}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @webarticle {650433, title = {The National Emergency Library is a Gift to Readers Everywhere}, journal = {newyorker.com}, number = {March 26, 2020}, year = {2020}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-national-emergency-library-is-a-gift-to-readers-everywhere}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {650431, title = {The Isolation Ward: On loneliness}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {April 6, 2020}, year = {2020}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/06/the-history-of-loneliness}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {650194, title = {Don{\textquoteright}t Come Any Closer: What{\textquoteright}s at stake in our fables of contagion?}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {March 30, 2020}, year = {2020}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/30/what-our-contagion-fables-are-really-about}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {650193, title = {But Who{\textquoteright}s Counting? The coming census}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {March 23, 2020}, year = {2020}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/23/will-this-years-census-be-the-last}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @book {649348, title = {IF THEN: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future}, year = {2020}, publisher = {Liveright}, organization = {Liveright}, address = {New York}, abstract = { A brilliant, revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the author of the acclaimed international bestseller,\ These Truths. \  The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge--decades before Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica. Silicon Valley likes to imagine it has no past but the scientists of Simulmatics are the long-dead grandfathers of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. Borrowing from psychological warfare, they used computers to predict and direct human behavior, deploying their {\textquotedblleft}People Machine{\textquotedblright} from New York, Cambridge, and Saigon for clients that included John Kennedy{\textquoteright}s presidential campaign, the\ New York Times, Young \& Rubicam, and, during the Vietnam War, the Department of Defense. Jill Lepore, distinguished Harvard historian and\ New Yorker\ staff writer, unearthed from the archives the almost unbelievable story of this long-vanished corporation, and of the women hidden behind it. In the 1950s and 1960s, Lepore argues, Simulmatics invented the future by building the machine in which the world now finds itself trapped and tormented, algorithm by algorithm. \  {\textquotedblleft}A person can{\textquoteright}t help but feel inspired by the riveting intelligence and joyful curiosity of Jill Lepore.\  Knowing that there is a mind like hers in the world is a hope-inducing thing.{\textquotedblright} \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \  --George Saunders \  {\textquotedblleft}Everything Lepore writes is distinguished by intelligence, eloquence, and fresh insight.\ If Then\ is that, and even more: It{\textquoteright}s absolutely fascinating, excavating a piece of little-known American corporate history that reveals a huge amount about the way we live today and the companies that define the modern era.{\textquotedblright} \  \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \  --Susan Orlean \  {\textquotedblleft}Data science, Jill Lepore reminds us in this brilliant book, has a past, and she tells it through the engrossing story of Simulmatics, the tiny, long-forgotten company that helped invent our data-obsessed world, in which prediction is seemingly the only knowledge that matters. A captivating, deeply incisive work.{\textquotedblright} \  \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \  {\textemdash}Frederik\ Logevall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of\ Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America{\textquoteright}s Vietnam \  {\textquotedblleft}Think today{\textquoteright}s tech giants invented data mining and market manipulation? Think again. In this page-turning, eye-opening history, Jill Lepore reveals the Cold War roots of the tech-saturated present, in a thrilling tale that moves from the campaigns of Eisenhower and Kennedy to ivied think tanks, Madison Avenue ad firms, and the hamlets of Vietnam. Told with verve, grace, and humanity,\ If Then\ is an essential, sobering story for understanding our times.{\textquotedblright} \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \  {\textemdash}Margaret O{\textquoteright}Mara, author of\ The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America \  {\textquotedblleft}It didn{\textquoteright}t all start with Facebook. We have long been fascinated with the potential of using computing technology to predict human behavior. In another fast-paced narrative, Jill Lepore brilliantly uncovers the history of the Simulmatics Corp, which launched the volatile mix of computing, politics and personal behavior that now divides our nation, feeds on private information, and weakens the strength our democratic institutions. If you want to know where this all started, you need not look any further--read this book!{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash} Julian Zelizer, author of\ Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker and the Rise of the New Republican Party\  \  Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper {\textquoteright}41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and is also a staff writer at\ The New Yorker. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, her many books include the international bestseller,\ These Truths. \  }, url = {http://simulmatics.com/}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {646668, title = {In Every Dark Hour}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {February 3, 2020}, year = {2020}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/03/the-last-time-democracy-almost-died}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {643118, title = {You{\textquoteright}re Fired: A short account of the long history of impeachment}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {October 28, 2019}, year = {2019}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/28/the-invention-and-reinvention-of-impeachment}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {642548, title = {Know it All: Edward Snowden and the rise of whistle-blowing}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {September 23, 2019}, year = {2019}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @newspaperarticle {639621, title = {Taking History Personally}, journal = {Times Literary Supplement}, volume = {August 9,2 019}, year = {2019}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {638293, title = {Ahab at Home: Two hundred years of Herman Melville}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {July 29, 2019}, year = {2019}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/herman-melville-at-home}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {637493, title = {The Deadline: On the lingering of loss}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {July 8, 2019}, year = {2019}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/08/the-lingering-of-loss}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @newspaperarticle {637413, title = {One Small Step}, journal = {The New York Times Book Review}, number = {June 14, 2019}, year = {2019}, url = {https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/14/books/review/moon-landing-anniversary.html}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @newspaperarticle {636020, title = {Don{\textquoteright}t Let Nationalists Speak for the Nation}, journal = {New York Times}, volume = {May 25, 2019}, year = {2019}, url = {https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/opinion/sunday/nationalism-liberalism-2020.html}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {635557, title = {Bound to Win: Memoirs of presidential candidates}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {May 20, 2019}, year = {2019}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/20/confessions-of-a-presidential-candidate}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @webarticle {635518, title = {On These Truths}, journal = {Public Seminar}, number = {May 9, 2019}, year = {2019}, url = {http://www.publicseminar.org/2019/05/on-these-truths/}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {632622, title = {The Robot Caravan: automation, A.I., and the coming invasion}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {March 4, 2019}, year = {2019}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/04/are-robots-competing-for-your-job}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {631707, title = {The Fireman: Eugene V. Debs and the endurance of socialism}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {February 18, 2019}, year = {2019}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/18/eugene-v-debs-and-the-endurance-of-socialism}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @article {630928, title = {A New Americanism: Why a Nation Needs a National Story}, journal = {Foreign Affairs}, volume = {March/April}, year = {2019}, url = {https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2019-02-05/new-americanism-natioalism-jill-lepore}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @book {630791, title = {This America: The Case for the Nation}, year = {2019}, publisher = {Liveright}, organization = {Liveright}, address = {New York}, abstract = {From the acclaimed historian and New Yorker writer comes this urgent manifesto on the dilemma of nationalism and the erosion of liberalism in the twenty-first century.At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This America, a follow-up to her much-celebrated history of the United States, These Truths.With dangerous forms of nationalism on the rise, Lepore, a Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, repudiates nationalism here by explaining its long history{\textemdash}and the history of the idea of the nation itself{\textemdash}while calling for a {\textquotedblleft}new Americanism{\textquotedblright}: a generous patriotism that requires an honest reckoning with America{\textquoteright}s past.Lepore begins her argument with a primer on the origins of nations, explaining how liberalism, the nation-state, and liberal nationalism, developed together. Illiberal nationalism, however, emerged in the United States after the Civil War{\textemdash}resulting in the failure of Reconstruction, the rise of Jim Crow, and the restriction of immigration. Much of American history, Lepore argues, has been a battle between these two forms of nationalism, liberal and illiberal, all the way down to the nation{\textquoteright}s latest, bitter struggles over immigration.Defending liberalism, as This America demonstrates, requires making the case for the nation. But American historians largely abandoned that defense in the 1960s when they stopped writing national history. By the 1980s they{\textquoteright}d stopped studying the nation-state altogether and embraced globalism instead. {\textquotedblleft}When serious historians abandon the study of the nation,{\textquotedblright} Lepore tellingly writes, {\textquotedblleft}nationalism doesn{\textquoteright}t die. Instead, it eats liberalism.{\textquotedblright} But liberalism is still in there, Lepore affirms, and This America is an attempt to pull it out. {\textquotedblleft}In a world made up of nations, there is no more powerful way to fight the forces of prejudice, intolerance, and injustice than by a dedication to equality, citizenship, and equal rights, as guaranteed by a nation of laws.{\textquotedblright}A manifesto for a better nation, and a call for a {\textquotedblleft}new Americanism,{\textquotedblright} This America reclaims the nation{\textquoteright}s future by reclaiming its past.\ {\textquotedblleft}A sharp, short history of nationalism.... A frank, well-written look at the dangers we face. We ignore them at our peril.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash} Kirkus Reviews (starred review)\ {\textquotedblleft}Urgent and pithy{\textellipsis} Readers seeking clear and relevant definitions of political concepts will appreciate this brisk yet thorough, frank, and bracing look at the ancient origins of the nation state versus the late-eighteenth-century coinage of the term {\textquoteleft}nationalism{\textquoteright} and its alignment with exclusion and prejudice.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash} Booklist{\textquotedblleft}A hopeful book for all who believe that America{\textquoteright}s ideals are stronger than our demagogues.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash} Michael Bloomberg\ }, url = {https://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?id=4294999022\&LangType=1033}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {630181, title = {Hard News: the state of journalism}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {January 28, 2019}, year = {2019}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/28/does-journalism-have-a-future}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {629083, title = {Unforeseen: What 2018 Looked Like Fifty Years Ago}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {January 7, 2019}, year = {2019}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/07/what-2018-looked-like-fifty-years-ago}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {625626, title = {This America}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {November 12, 2018}, year = {2018}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/reigns-of-terror-in-america}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @newspaperarticle {622717, title = {Jill Lepore on Writing the Story of America (In 1,000 Pages or Less)}, journal = {New York Times}, year = {2018}, url = {https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/16/books/jill-lepore-on-the-history-of-america-in-1000-pages-or-less.html}, author = {Scheussler, Jennifer} } @magazinearticle {622358, title = {Misjudged: How Justice Ginsburg overcame the distrust of feminists}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {October 8, 2018}, year = {2018}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/08/ruth-bader-ginsburgs-unlikely-path-to-the-supreme-court}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @newspaperarticle {621683, title = {The Hacking of America}, journal = {The New York Times}, volume = {Sep 14, 2018}, year = {2018}, url = {https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/sunday-review/politics-disruption-media-technology.html}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @broadcast {621283, title = {The Attack on Democracy}, journal = {Morning Edition}, number = {Sep 12 2018}, year = {2018}, publisher = {NPR}, url = {https://www.npr.org/2018/09/12/646968847/the-attack-on-democracy-in-the-1930s-and-today} } @magazinearticle {620778, title = {Back to the Blackboard: Do students have constitutional rights?}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {September 10, 2018}, year = {2018}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/10/is-education-a-fundamental-right}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {620211, title = {It Was Never Thus}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {September 3, 2018}, year = {2018}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/03/measuring-presidents-misdeeds}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {609989, title = {Sirens in the Night: how the victims{\textquoteright}-rights revolution has remade American justice}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {May 21, 2018}, year = {2018}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/21/the-rise-of-the-victims-rights-movement}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {606715, title = {The Shorebird: Rachel Carson and the rising of the seas}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {March 26, 2018}, year = {2018}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/26/the-right-way-to-remember-rachel-carson}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {604369, title = {It{\textquoteright}s Alive: Two hundred years of Frankenstein}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {February 12, 2018}, year = {2018}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/the-strange-and-twisted-life-of-frankenstein}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {603377, title = {Valley of the Dolls: Barbie, Bratz, and the end of originality}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {1/22/18}, year = {2018}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @book {586721, title = {These Truths: A History of the United States}, year = {2018}, publisher = {Norton}, organization = {Norton}, address = {New York}, abstract = {In the most ambitious, one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation.The American experiment rests on three ideas{\textemdash}{\textquotedblleft}these truths,{\textquotedblright} Jefferson called them{\textemdash}political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, on a fearless dedication to inquiry, writes Jill Lepore in a groundbreaking investigation into the American past that places truth itself at the center of the nation{\textquoteright}s history. In riveting prose, These Truths tells the story of America, beginning in 1492, to ask whether the course of events has proven the nation{\textquoteright}s founding truths, or belied them. {\textquotedblleft}A nation born in contradiction, liberty in a land of slavery, will fight forever over the meaning of its history,{\textquotedblright} Lepore writes, finding meaning in those very contradictions as she weaves American history into a majestic tapestry of faith and hope, of peril and prosperity, of technological progress and moral anguish. Part spellbinding chronicle, part old-fashioned civics book, These Truths, filled with arresting sketches of Americans from John Winthrop and Frederick Douglass to Pauli Murray and Phyllis Schlafly, offers an authoritative new history of a great, and greatly troubled, nation.\ Praise for These Truths{\textquotedblleft}[B]rilliant{\textellipsis}insightful{\textellipsis}It isn{\textquoteright}t until you start reading it that you realize how much we need a book like this one at this particular moment.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Andrew Sullivan,\ The New York Times Book Review\ {\textquotedblleft}This sweeping, sobering account of the American past is a story not of relentless progress but of conflict and contradiction, with crosscurrents of reason and faith, black and white, immigrant and native, industry and agriculture rippling through a narrative that is far from completion.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}The\ New York Times Book Review, Editors{\textquoteright} Choice\ {\textquotedblleft}[Lepore{\textquoteright}s] one-volume history is elegant, readable, sobering; it extends a steadying hand when a breakneck news cycle lurches from one event to another, confounding minds and churning stomachs.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Jennifer Szalai,\ The New York Times\ \ {\textquotedblleft}Jill Lepore is an extraordinarily gifted writer, and\ These Truths\ is nothing short of a masterpiece of American history. By engaging with our country{\textquoteright}s painful past (and present) in an intellectually honest way, she has created a book that truly does encapsulate the American story in all its pain and all its triumph.{\textquotedblright}{\textendash}Michael Schaub,\ NPR\ \ {\textquotedblleft}A splendid rendering{\textemdash}filled with triumph, tragedy, and hope{\textemdash}that will please Lepore{\textquoteright}s readers immensely and win her many new ones.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Kirkus Reviews, starred review\ \ {\textquotedblleft}This thought-provoking and fascinating book stands to become the definitive one-volume U.S. history for a new generation.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Library Journal, starred review\ \ {\textquotedblleft}An ambitious and provocative attempt to interpret American history as an effort to fulfill and maintain certain fundamental principles. . . . Lepore is a historian with wide popular appeal, and this comprehensive work will answer readers{\textquoteright} questions about who we are as a nation.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Booklist, starred review\ \ {\textquotedblleft}Astounding{\textellipsis} [Lepore] has assembled evidence of an America that was better than some thought, worse than almost anyone imagined, and weirder than most serious history books ever convey. Armed with the facts of what happened before, we are better able to approach our collective task of figuring out what should happen now . . . Perhaps instead of the next U2 album, Apple could make a copy of\ These Truths\ appear on every iPhone{\textemdash}not only because it offers the basic civics education that every American needs, but because it is a welcome corrective to the corrosive histories peddled by partisans.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Casey N. Cep,\ Harvard Magazine\ \ {\textquotedblleft}In her epic new work, Jill Lepore helps us learn from whence we came.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Oprah Magazine\ \ {\textquotedblleft}Sweeping and propulsive.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Vulture\ {\textquotedblleft} {\textquoteleft}An old-fashioned civics book,{\textquoteright} Harvard historian and\ New Yorker\ contributor Jill Lepore calls it, a glint in her eye. This fat, ludicrously ambitious one-volume history is a lot more than that. In its spirit of inquiry, in its eager iconoclasms,\ These Truths\ enacts the founding ideals of the country it describes.--Huffington Post\ \ {\textquotedblleft}It{\textquoteright}s an audacious undertaking to write a readable history of America, and Jill Lepore is more than up to the task. But\ These Truths\ is also an astute exploration of the ways in which the country is living up to its potential, and where it is not.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Business Insider\ \ {\textquotedblleft}Gutsy, lyrical, and expressive{\textellipsis} [These Truths] is a perceptive and necessary contribution to understanding the American condition of late.{\textellipsis} It captures the fullness of the past, where hope rises out of despair, renewal out of destruction, and forward momentum out of setbacks.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Jack E. Davis,\ Chicago Tribune\ {\textquotedblleft}Lepore{\textquoteright}s brilliant book,\ These Truths, rings as clear as a church bell, the lucid, welcome yield of clear thinking and a capable, curious mind.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Karen R. Long,\ Newsday\ {\textquotedblleft}A splendid rendering{\textemdash}filled with triumph, tragedy, and hope{\textemdash}that will please Lepore{\textquoteright}s readers immensely and win her many new ones.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Kirkus Reviews, starred review\ {\textquotedblleft}An ambitious and provocative attempt to interpret American history as an effort to fulfull and maintain certain fundamental principles . . . Lepore is a historian with wide popular appeal, and this comprehensive work will answer readers{\textquoteright} questions about who we are as a nation.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Booklist, starred review\ {\textquotedblleft}In this time of disillusionment with American politics, Jill Lepore{\textquoteright}s beautifully written book should be essential reading for everyone who cares about the country{\textquoteright}s future. Her history of the United States reminds us of the dilemmas that have plagued the country and the institutional strengths that have allowed us to survive as a republic for over two centuries. At a minimum, her book should be required reading for every federal officeholder.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Robert Dallek, author of Franklin D. Roosevelt\ "No one has written with more passion and brilliance about how a flawed and combustible America kept itself tethered to the transcendent ideals on which it was founded. If the country is to recover from its current crisis, These Truths will illuminate the way."{\textemdash}Gary Gerstle, author of Liberty and Coercion\ {\textquotedblleft}Who can write a comprehensive yet lucid history of the sprawling United States in a single volume? Only Jill Lepore has the verve, wit, range, and insights to pull off this daring and provocative book. Interweaving many lively biographies, These Truths illuminates the origins of the passions and causes, which still inspire and divide Americans in an age that needs all the truth we can find.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Alan Taylor, author of American Revolutions\ {\textquotedblleft}Lepore brings a scholar{\textquoteright}s comprehensive rigor and a poet{\textquoteright}s lyrical precision to this singular single-volume history of the United States. Understanding America{\textquoteright}s past, as she demonstrates, has always been a central American project. She knows that the "story of America" is as plural and mutable as the nation itself, and the result is a work of prismatic richness, one that rewards not just reading but rereading. This will be an instant classic.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Kwame Anthony Appiah, author of The Lies that Bind\ {\textquotedblleft}Anyone interested in the future of the Republic must read this book. One of our greatest historians succeeds, where so many have failed, to make sense of the whole canvas of our history. Without ignoring the horrors of conquest, slavery or recurring prejudices, she manages nonetheless to capture the epic quality of the American past. With passion, compassion, wit, and remarkable insight, Lepore brings it all to life, the good, the bad, the beautiful and the ugly. This is a manifesto for our necessarily shared future.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Lynn Hunt, author of History: Why it Matters\ {\textquotedblleft}In this inspiring and enlightening book, Jill Lepore accomplishes the grand task of telling us what we need to know about our past in order to be good citizens today. Avoiding political and ideological agendas, she confronts the contradictions that come from being born a land of both liberty and slavery, but she uses such conflicts to find meaning{\textemdash}and hope{\textemdash}in the tale of America{\textquoteright}s progress.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Walter Isaacson, University Professor of History, Tulane, author of The Innovators\ "Lepore is a truly gifted writer with profound insight."-Spectator\ "This vivid history brings alive the contradictions and hypocrisies of the land of the free"- David Aaronovitch, The Times"A history for the 21st century, far more inclusive than the standard histories of the past"- Guardian"Monumental ... a crucial work for presenting a fresh and clear-sighted narrative of the entire story ... exciting and page-turningly fascinating, in one of those rare history books that can be read with pleasure for its sheer narrative energy"- Simon Winchester, New Statesman"Jill Lepore is that rare combination in modern life of intellect, originality and style"- Amanda Foreman, TLS\ \ \ \ }, url = {http://www.thesetruthsbook.com/}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {571731, title = {Dead Weight: The burden of the corpse}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {October 16, 2017}, year = {2017}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/16/what-do-we-do-with-our-dead}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {571726, title = {The History Test: How Should the Courts Use History?}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {March 27, 2017}, year = {2017}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/weaponizing-the-past}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {568551, title = {Inquietude}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {October 9, 2017}, year = {2017}, url = {https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/09/flip-flopping-on-free-speech}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {533326, title = {No,we cannot}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {June 5, 2017}, year = {2017}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/05/a-golden-age-for-dystopian-fiction}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {533321, title = {The Strategy of Truth}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {June 5, 2017}, year = {2017}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/05/the-world-that-trump-and-ailes-built}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @newspaperarticle {524941, title = {The art of the matter: Historian Jill Lepore writes her arguments to life}, journal = {Harvard Gazette}, volume = {April 25, 2017}, year = {2017}, url = {http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/the-writing-life-of-harvard-historian-jill-lepore/}, author = {Walsh, Colleen} } @article {524461, title = {Jill Lepore on the Challenge of Explaining Things}, journal = {Public Books}, volume = {April 24, 2017}, year = {2017}, url = {http://www.publicbooks.org/jill-lepore-on-the-challenge-of-explaining-things/}, author = {Cohen, B.R.} } @magazinearticle {489491, title = {The Autumn of the Atom: How arguments about nuclear weapons shaped the climate-change debate}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2017}, month = {30 Jan 2017}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/the-atomic-origins-of-climate-science}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @inbook {489531, title = {Introduction}, booktitle = {It{\textquoteright}s Up to the Women}, year = {2017}, publisher = {The Nation Books}, organization = {The Nation Books}, address = {New York}, url = {https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eleanor-roosevelt/its-up-to-the-women/9781568585949/}, author = {Eleanor Roosevelt} } @webarticle {472201, title = {The Problem With Polls Isn{\textquoteright}t Technical, It{\textquoteright}s Political}, journal = {Nieman Reports}, number = {Nov 16 2016}, year = {2016}, url = {http://niemanreports.org/articles/the-problem-with-polls-isnt-technological-its-political/}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {471406, title = {Esme in Neverland: The film J.D. Salinger nearly made}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2016}, month = {21 Nov 2016}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/21/the-film-jd-salinger-nearly-made}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {471416, title = {Wars Within (from Aftermath: Sixteen Writers on Trump{\textquoteright}s Election)}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2016}, month = {21 Nov 2016}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/21/aftermath-sixteen-writers-on-trumps-america$\#$lepore}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {451951, title = {The State of Debate: How should Presidential candidates--and voters--argue about politics?}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2016}, month = {19 Sep 2016}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/19/the-state-of-the-presidential-debate}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @webarticle {429161, title = {American Exposure}, journal = {newyorker.com}, number = {July 12, 2016}, year = {2016}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/american-exposure}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {428876, title = {The War and the Roses: a tale of two Conventions}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2016}, month = {8 Aug 2016}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/08/a-tale-of-two-conventions}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {414196, title = {How to Steal an Election: The crazy history of nominating conventions}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2016}, month = {4 Jul 2016}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/04/conventions-primaries-and-the-presidency}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {410111, title = {The Woman Card: How feminism and antifeminism created Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2016}, month = {27 Jun 2016}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/06/27/hillary-clinton-and-the-history-of-women-in-american-politics}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @webarticle {386456, title = {Annotating "The Prodigal Daughter"}, journal = {Nieman Storyboard}, number = {April 12, 2016}, year = {2016}, url = {http://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/annotation-tuesday-jill-lepore-and-the-prodigal-daughter/}, author = {Mahany, Barbara} } @magazinearticle {386451, title = {The Sovereignty of Women}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2016}, month = {18 Apr 2016}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/18/considering-female-rule}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {379981, title = {Baby Doe: A political history of tragedy}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {1 Feb 2016}, year = {2016}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/01/baby-doe}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @newspaperarticle {379986, title = {Review of The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe}, journal = {The New York Times Book Review}, year = {2016}, month = {6 Mar 2016}, url = {http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/books/review/the-civil-wars-of-julia-ward-howe-by-elaine-showalter.html?rref=collection\%2Ftimestopic\%2FBook\%20Reviews\&action=click\&contentCollection=books\®ion=stream\&module=stream_unit\&version=search\&contentPlacement=3}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {379016, title = {After the Fact: In the history of truth, a new chapter begins}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2016}, month = {21 Mar 2016}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/21/the-internet-of-us-and-the-end-of-facts}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @webarticle {377666, title = {Crying Trump}, journal = {newyorker.com}, number = {March 8, 2016}, year = {2016}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/crying-trump}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @broadcast {373286, title = {Polling Is Ubiquitous: But Is it Bad for Democracy?}, journal = {Fresh Air}, year = {2016}, url = {http://www.npr.org/2016/02/11/466405233/polling-is-ubiquitous-but-is-it-bad-for-democracy}, author = {Gross, Terri} } @magazinearticle {372756, title = {The Party Crashers: Is the new populism about the message or the medium?}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {February 22, 2016}, year = {2016}, month = {22 Feb 2016}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/22/did-social-media-produce-the-new-populism}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @webarticle {367186, title = {The Rebirth of a Nation}, journal = {newyorker.com}, number = {January 31, 2016}, year = {2016}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-rebirth-of-a-nation}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @webarticle {363851, title = {Natural Born Presidents}, journal = {newyorker.com}, number = {January 18, 2016}, year = {2016}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/natural-born-presidents}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @book {356301, title = {Joe Gould{\textquoteright}s Teeth}, year = {2016}, publisher = {Knopf}, organization = {Knopf}, address = {New York}, abstract = {From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called {\textquotedblleft}The Oral History of Our Time.{\textquotedblright} Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most brilliant historian of the twentieth century. So did some of his friends, a group of modernist writers and artists that included E. E. Cummings, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, John Dos Passos, and Ezra Pound. Gould began his life{\textquoteright}s work before the First World War, announcing that he intended to write down nearly anything anyone ever said to him. {\textquotedblleft}I am trying to preserve as much detail as I can about the normal life of every day people,{\textquotedblright} he explained, because {\textquotedblleft}as a rule, history does not deal with such small fry.{\textquotedblright} By 1942, when The New Yorker published a profile of Gould written by the reporter Joseph Mitchell, Gould{\textquoteright}s manuscript had grown to more than nine million words. But when Gould died in 1957, in a mental hospital, the manuscript was nowhere to be found. Then, in 1964, in {\textquotedblleft}Joe Gould{\textquoteright}s Secret,{\textquotedblright} a second profile, Mitchell claimed that {\textquotedblleft}The Oral History of Our Time{\textquotedblright} had been, all along, merely a figment of Gould{\textquoteright}s imagination. Lepore, unpersuaded, set about to find out. Joe Gould{\textquoteright}s Teeth is a Poe-like tale of detection, madness, and invention. Digging through archives all over the country, Lepore unearthed evidence that {\textquotedblleft}The Oral History of Our Time{\textquotedblright} did in fact once exist. Relying on letters, scraps, and Gould{\textquoteright}s own diaries and notebooks{\textemdash}including volumes of his lost manuscript{\textemdash}Lepore argues that Joe Gould{\textquoteright}s real secret had to do with sex and the color line, with modernists{\textquoteright} relationship to the Harlem Renaissance, and, above all, with Gould{\textquoteright}s terrifying obsession with the African American sculptor Augusta Savage. In ways that even Gould himself could not have imagined, what Gould wrote down really is a history of our time: unsettling, and ferocious. {\textquotedblleft}A madman{\textquoteright}s grossly engrossing tale.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash}The New York Times {\textquotedblleft}Revelatory..{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash}San Francisco Chronicle\ {\textquotedblleft}We owe Lepore a debt of gratitude for re-introducing us to one of the strangest strangers to have ever walked among us.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash}Chicago Tribune {\textquotedblleft}Lepore specializes in excavating old flashpoints{\textemdash}forgotten or badly misremembered collisions between politics and cultural debates in America{\textquoteright}s past. She lays out for our modern sensibility how some event or social problem was fought over by interest groups, reformers, opportunists and {\textquoteleft}thought leaders{\textquoteright} of the day. The result can look both familiar and disturbing, like our era{\textquoteright}s arguments flipped in a funhouse mirror{\textellipsis}.Her discipline is worthy of a first-class detective.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash}The New York Review of Books {\textquotedblleft}At a time when few are disposed to see history as a branch of literature, Lepore occupies a prominent place in American letters.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash}The Daily Beast {\textquotedblleft}Again and again, she distills the figures she writes about into clean, simple, muscular prose, making unequivocal assertions that carry a faint electric charge{\textellipsis}[and] attain a transgressive, downright badass swagger.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash}Slate {\textquotedblleft}Lepore{\textquoteright}s superb narrative brings that history vividly into the present, weaving individual lives into the sweeping changes of the century.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash}The Wall Street Journal}, url = {http://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/536161/joe-goulds-teeth/}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {348926, title = {Politics and the New Machine: What the turn from polls to data science means for democracy}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2015}, month = {16 Nov 2015}, abstract = {A version of this essay was delivered on November 5, 2015, as the Theodore H. White Lecture on the Press and Politics at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard{\textquoteright}s Kennedy School of Government.}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/16/politics-and-the-new-machine}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {282936, title = {Joe Gould{\textquoteright}s Teeth: The long-lost story of the longest book ever written}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2015}, month = {27 July 2015}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/27/joe-goulds-teeth}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {256521, title = {To Have and to Hold: Reproduction, Marriage, and the Constitution}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {May 25, 2015}, year = {2015}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/25/to-have-and-to-hold}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {248886, title = {The Rule of History: Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, and the hold of time}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {April 20, 2015}, year = {2015}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/20/the-rule-of-history}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {238486, title = {Richer and Poorer: Accounting for inequality}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {March 16, 2015}, year = {2015}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/16/richer-and-poorer}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @webarticle {237886, title = {Wonder Woman and the History of Feminism}, journal = {Dissent}, number = {March 3, 2015}, year = {2015}, url = {http://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/booked-2-wonder-woman-history-of-feminism-jill-lepore}, author = {Shenk, Tim} } @newspaperarticle {231686, title = {"Mourning Lincoln" and "Lincoln{\textquoteright}s Body"}, journal = {The New York Times}, volume = {February 4, 2015}, year = {2015}, url = {http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/books/review/mourning-lincoln-and-lincolns-body.html?_r=0}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {228306, title = {The Cobweb: Can the Internet be archived?}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {January 26, 2015}, year = {2015}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/26/cobweb}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @inbook {202986, title = {Introduction}, booktitle = {The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and Selected Writings}, year = {2015}, publisher = {Knopf}, organization = {Knopf}, edition = {Everyman Library}, address = {New York}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @article {197876, title = {On Evidence: Proving Frye as a Matter of Law, Science, and History}, journal = {The Yale Law Journal}, volume = {124}, number = {4}, year = {2015}, pages = {882-1344}, url = {http://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/on-evidence-proving-frye-as-a-matter-of-law-science-and-history}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @broadcast {373676, title = {Interview with Jill Lepore}, journal = {The Colbert Report}, volume = {October 29, 2014}, year = {2014}, url = {http://www.cc.com/video-clips/1h66nr/the-colbert-report-jill-lepore}, author = {Colbert, Stephen} } @webarticle {220651, title = {Yesterday{\textquoteright}s News}, journal = {newyorker.com}, number = {December 3, 2014}, year = {2014}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/yesterdays-news-benjamin-franklin}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {218741, title = {The Great Paper Caper: Someone swiped Justice Frankfurter{\textquoteright}s papers. What else has gone missing?}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {December 2, 2014}, year = {2014}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/01/great-paper-caper}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @broadcast {213331, title = {The Man Behind Wonder Woman Was Inspired by Both Suffragists and Centerfolds}, journal = {Fresh Air}, year = {2014}, publisher = {NPR}, url = {http://www.npr.org/2014/10/27/359078315/the-man-behind-wonder-woman-was-inspired-by-both-suffragists-and-centerfolds}, author = {Gross, Terry} } @magazinearticle {200161, title = {The Last Amazon: Wonder Woman returns}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {September 22, 2014}, year = {2014}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/22/last-amazon}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @webarticle {197666, title = {Watching the Killing}, journal = {newyorker.com}, number = {September 4, 2014}, year = {2014}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/watching-killing}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {190636, title = {The Crooked and the Dead: Does the Constitution protect corruption?}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {August 25, 2014}, year = {2014}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/crooked-dead}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @webarticle {179766, title = {The Gleaming: the bicentennial of the "Star-Spangled Banner"}, journal = {newyorker.com}, number = {July 4, 2014}, year = {2014}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2014/07/how-the-star-spangled-banner-became-the-national-anthem.html}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {173556, title = {The Disruption Machine: What the gospel of innovation gets wrong}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {June 23, 2014}, year = {2014}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/06/23/140623fa_fact_lepore?currentPage=all}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @book {169966, title = {The Secret History of Wonder Woman}, year = {2014}, publisher = {Knopf}, organization = {Knopf}, address = {New York}, abstract = {A New York Times and National Bestseller and Winner of the 2015 American History Book Prize "Ms. Lepore{\textquoteright}s lively, surprising and occasionally salacious history is far more than the story of a comic strip. The author, a professor of history at Harvard, places Wonder Woman squarely in the story of women{\textquoteright}s rights in America{\textemdash}a cycle of rights won, lost and endlessly fought for again. Like many illuminating histories, this one shows how issues we debate today were under contention just as vigorously decades ago, including birth control, sex education, the ways in which women can combine work and family, and the effects of {\textquoteright}violent entertainment{\textquoteright} on children. {\textquoteright}The tragedy of feminism in the twentieth century is the way its history seemed to be forever disappearing,{\textquoteright} Ms. Lepore writes. Her superb narrative brings that history vividly into the present, weaving individual lives into the sweeping changes of the century.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash}The Wall Street Journal {\textquotedblleft}Lepore{\textquoteright}s brilliance lies in knowing what to do with the material she has. In her hands, the Wonder Woman story unpacks not only a new cultural history of feminism, but a theory of history as well.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash}New York Times Book Review\ {\textquotedblleft}Lepore specializes in excavating old flashpoints{\textemdash}forgotten or badly misremembered collisions between politics and cultural debates in America{\textquoteright}s past. She lays out for our modern sensibility how some event or social problem was fought over by interest groups, reformers, opportunists, and {\textquotedblleft}thought leaders{\textquotedblright} of the day. The result can look both familiar and disturbing, like our era{\textquoteright}s arguments flipped in a funhouse mirror{\textellipsis}.Besides archives and comics Lepore relies on journalism, notebooks, letters, and traces of memoir left by the principals, as well as interviews with surviving colleagues, children, and extended family. Her discipline is worthy of a first-class detective{\textellipsis}.Lepore convinces us that we should know more about early feminists whose work Wonder Woman drew on and carried forward{\textellipsis}.A key spotter of connections, Lepore retrieves a remarkably recognizable feminist through-line, showing us 1920s debates about work-life balance, for example, that sound like something from The Atlantic in the past decade.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash}New York Review of Books\ {\textquotedblleft}Even non-comix nerds (or those too young to remember Lynda Carter) will marvel at Jill Lepore{\textquoteright}s deep dive into the real-world origins of the Amazonian superhero with the golden lasso. The fact that a polyamory enthusiast created her partly as a tribute to the reproductive-rights pioneer Margaret Sanger is, somehow, only the fourth or fifth most interesting thing in Ms. Woman{\textquoteright}s bizarre background.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash}New York Magazine\ {\textquotedblleft}With a defiantly unhurried ease, Lepore reconstructs the prevailing cultural mood that birthed the idea of Wonder Woman, carefully delineating the conceptual debt the character owes to early-20th-century feminism in general and the birth control movement in particular{\textellipsis}.Again and again, she distills the figures she writes about into clean, simple, muscular prose, making unequivocal assertions that carry a faint electric charge{\textellipsis}[and] attain a transgressive, downright badass swagger.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash}Slate\ {\textquotedblleft}Deftly combines biography and cultural history to trace the entwined stories of Marston, Wonder Woman, and 20th-century feminism{\textellipsis}.Lepore {\textendash} a professor of American history at Harvard, a New Yorker writer, and the author of {\textquotedblleft}Book of Ages{\textquotedblright} {\textendash} is an endlessly energetic and knowledgeable guide to the fascinating backstory of Wonder Woman. She{\textquoteright}s particularly skillful at showing the subtle process by which personal details migrate from life into art.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash}Christian Science Monitor\  {\textquotedblleft}Wonder Woman, everyone{\textquoteright}s favorite female superhero (bulletproof bracelets, hello!), gets the Lasso of Truth treatment in this illuminating biography. Lepore, a Harvard prof and New Yorker writer, delves into the complicated family life of Wonder Woman{\textquoteright}s creator (who invented the lie detector, BTW), examines the use of bondage in his comics, and highlights the many ways in which the beloved Amazonian princess has come to embody feminism.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Cosmopolitan\ {\textquotedblleft}The Secret History of Wonder Woman relates a tale so improbable, so juicy, it{\textquoteright}ll have you saying, {\textquotedblleft}Merciful Minerva!{\textquotedblright}{\textellipsis} an astonishingly thorough investigation of the man behind the world{\textquoteright}s most popular female superhero{\textellipsis}. Lepore has assembled a vast trove of images and deploys them cunningly. Besides a hefty full-color section of Wonder Woman art in the middle, there are dozens of black-and-white pictures scattered throughout the text. Many of these are panels from Marston{\textquoteright}s comics that mirror events in his own life. Combined with Lepore{\textquoteright}s zippy prose, it all makes for a supremely engaging reading experience.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash}Etelka Lehoczky, NPR\ {\textquotedblleft}If it makes your head spin to imagine a skimpily clad pop culture icon as (spoiler alert!) a close relation of feminist birth control advocate Margaret Sanger, then prepare to be dazzled by the truths revealed in historian Jill Lepore{\textquoteright}s {\textquotedblleft}The Secret History of Wonder Woman.{\textquotedblright} The story behind Wonder Woman is sensational, spellbinding and utterly improbable. Her origins lie in the feminism of the early 1900s, and the intertwined dramas that surrounded her creation are the stuff of pulp fiction and tabloid scandal{\textellipsis}.It took a super-sleuth to uncover the mysteries of this intricate history, hidden from view for more than half a century. With acrobatic research prowess, muscular narrative chops and disarming flashes of humor, Lepore rises to the challenge, bringing to light previously unknown details and deliberately obfuscated connections.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash}San Francisco Chronicle\  {\textquotedblleft}This captivating, sometimes racy, charming illustrated history is one part biography of the character and one part biography of her fascinating creator, psychologist and inventor William Moulton Marston{\textemdash}an early feminist who believed, way before his time, that the world would be a better place if only women were running it{\textellipsis}.In the process of bringing her {\textquoteleft}superhero{\textquoteright} to life in this very carefully researched, witty secret {\textquoteleft}herstory,{\textquoteright} Lepore herself emerges as a kind of superheroine: a woman on a mission{\textemdash}as energetic, powerful, brilliant and provocative as her subject.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash}Good Housekeeping\ {\textquotedblleft}This book is important, readable scholarship, making the connection between popular culture and the deeper history of the American woman{\textquoteright}s fight for equality{\textellipsis}.Lepore restores Wonder Woman to her rightful and righteous place.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash}The Kansas City Star{\textquotedblleft}Fascinating{\textellipsis}often brilliant{\textellipsis}.Through assiduous research (the endnotes comprise almost a third of the book and are often very interesting reading), Lepore unravels a hidden history, and in so doing links her subjects{\textquoteright} lives to some of the most important social movements of the era. It{\textquoteright}s a remarkable, thought-provoking achievement.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash}Bookpage\ {\textquotedblleft}The Marston family{\textquoteright}s story is ripe for psychoanalysis. And so is The Secret History, since it raises interesting questions about what motivates writers to choose the subjects of their books. Having devoted her last work to Jane Franklin Mecom, Benjamin Franklin{\textquoteright}s sister, Lepore clearly has a passion for intelligent, opinionated women whose legacies have been overshadowed by the men they love. In her own small way, she{\textquoteright}s helping women get the justice they deserve, not unlike her tiara{\textquoteright}d counterpart{\textellipsis}.It has nearly everything you might want in a page-turner: tales of S\&M, skeletons in the closet, a believe-it-or-not weirdness in its biographical details, and something else that secretly powers even the most {\textquotedblleft}serious{\textquotedblright} feminist history{\textemdash}fun.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash}Entertainment Weekly\ {\textquotedblleft}An origin story far deeper, weirder, and kinkier than anything a cartoonist ever invented.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash}Vulture\ {\textquotedblleft}Lepore restores Wonder Woman to her rightful place as an essential women{\textquoteright}s rights icon in this dynamically researched and interpreted, spectacularly illustrated, downright astounding work of discovery that injects new zest into the history of feminism.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash}Booklist (*starred review*) {\textquotedblleft}The fullest and most fascinating portrait ever created about the complicated, unconventional family that inspired one of the most enduring feminist icons in pop culture{\textellipsis}. The Secret History of Wonder Woman is its own magic lasso, one that compels history to finally tell the truth about Wonder Woman{\textemdash}and compels the rest of us to behold it.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash}Los Angeles Times {\textquotedblleft}The Secret History of Wonder\ Woman\ is as racy, as improbable, as awesomely\ righteous, and as filled with\ curious devices as an episode of the comic book itself. In the nexus of feminism and\ popular culture, Jill Lepore has found a revelatory chapter of American\ history.\ I will never look at\ Wonder Woman{\textquoteright}s bracelets the same way again.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash}Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home\  "Hugely entertaining." --The Atlantic {\textquotedblleft}Lepore has an astonishing story and tells it extremely well. She acts as a sort of lie detector, but proceeds through elegant narrative rather than binary test. Sentences are poised, adverbs rare. Each chapter is carefully shaped. At a time when few are disposed to see history as a branch of literature, Lepore occupies a prominent place in American letters. Her microhistories weave compelling lives into larger stories.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash}The Daily Beast\ {\textquotedblleft}In the spirited, thoroughly reported "The Secret History of Wonder Woman," Jill Lepore recounts the fascinating details behind the Amazonian princess{\textquoteright} origin story{\textellipsis}.[Lepore]seamlessly shifts from the micro to the macro{\textellipsis}.A panel depicting this labor unrest is just one of scores that appear throughout Lepore{\textquoteright}s book, further amplifying the author{\textquoteright}s vivid prose.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Newsday\ {\textquotedblleft}A Harvard professor with impeccable scholarly credentials, Lepore treats her subject seriously, as if she is writing the biography of a feminist pioneer like Margaret Sanger, the founder of the birth control movement {\textemdash} which this book is, to an extent{\textellipsis}.Through extensive research and a careful reading of the Wonder Woman comic books, she argues convincingly that the story of this character is an indelible chapter in the history of women{\textquoteright}s rights.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash}Miami Herald\ }, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {166286, title = {Away from My Desk: The office from beginning to end}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {May 12, 2014}, year = {2014}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2014/05/12/140512crbo_books_lepore?currentPage=all}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {161256, title = {The Warren Brief: Reading Elizabeth Warren}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {April 21, 2014}, year = {2014}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2014/04/21/140421crbo_books_lepore?currentPage=all}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @newspaperarticle {156706, title = {A Historian{\textquoteright}s History: The Book of Lepore}, journal = {The Harvard Crimson}, volume = {March 6, 2014}, year = {2014}, url = {http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/3/6/harvard-historian-book-jill-lepore/$\#$http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/3/6/harvard-historian-book-jill-lepore/\%23http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/3/6/harvard-historian-book-jill-lepore/\%23http://www.the}, author = {Silber, Maia R.} } @magazinearticle {151636, title = {The X Factor}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {March 10, 2014}, year = {2014}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2014/03/10/140310taco_talk_lepore}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {139961, title = {Bad News: The reputation of Roger Ailes}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {January 20, 2014}, year = {2014}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2014/01/20/140120crat_atlarge_lepore}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {652207, title = {The Dark Ages: Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Law of Torment}, journal = {The New Yorker}, number = {March 18, 2013}, year = {2013}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/03/18/130318fa_fact_lepore}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @webarticle {134056, title = {Listless: The Ten Not-Best (and Not Even End-of-Year) Lists of 1913}, journal = {newyorker.com}, number = {December 3, 2013}, year = {2013}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/listless-the-ten-not-best-and-not-even-end-of-year-lists-of-1913}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @newspaperarticle {132926, title = {A Most Expensive Book (on public libraries and rare books)}, journal = {The New York Times}, volume = {November 24, 2013}, year = {2013}, url = {http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/opinion/sunday/a-most-expensive-book.html?partner=rssnyt\&emc=rss\&_r=0}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {132931, title = {Long Division: Measuring the polarization of American politics}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {December 2, 2013 }, year = {2013}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2013/12/02/131202crbo_books_lepore}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {126531, title = {The Man in the Box: Fifty years of Doctor Who}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {November 11, 2013}, year = {2013}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/11/11/131111fa_fact_lepore}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @audiovisual {114646, title = {Jane Franklin{\textquoteright}s Spectacles/Video}, journal = {CSPAN}, year = {2013}, url = {http://c-spanvideo.org/program/BookofA}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {102291, title = {The New Economy of Letters}, journal = {The Chronicle of Higher Education}, number = {September 6, 2013}, year = {2013}, url = {http://chronicle.com/article/The-New-Economy-of-Letters/141291/}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {102296, title = {The Tug of War: Woodrow Wilson and the power of the presidency}, journal = {The New Yorker}, number = {September 9, 2013}, year = {2013}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2013/09/09/130909crbo_books_lepore}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @webarticle {89356, title = {A Tribute to Edmund S. Morgan}, journal = {The Daily Beast}, number = {July 10, 2013}, year = {2013}, url = { http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/10/tell-me-what-you-see-jill-lepore-salutes-historian-edmund-s-morgan.html}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {87571, title = {The Prodigal Daughter: Writing, history, mourning}, journal = {The New Yorker}, number = {July 8, 2013}, year = {2013}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/07/08/130708fa_fact_lepore}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {85471, title = {The Prism: Privacy in an age of publicity}, journal = {The New Yorker}, number = {June 24, 2013}, year = {2013}, abstract = {This essay began as the Joanna Jackson Goldman Lectures in American Civilization and Government, which I delivered at the New York Public Library in March of 2013.}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/06/24/130624fa_fact_lepore}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @webarticle {82526, title = {History is No Real Guide Here}, journal = {nytimes.com}, number = {May 24, 2013}, year = {2013}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {82521, title = {The Oddyssey: Robert Ripley and His World}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {June 3, 2013}, year = {2013}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @webarticle {75481, title = {Two if By Sorrow: Boston and Its Losses}, journal = {newyorker.com}, number = {April 15, 2013}, year = {2013}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {53381, title = {The Force: How much military is enough?}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {January 28, 2013}, year = {2013}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2013/01/28/130128crat_atlarge_lepore}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @webarticle {51931, title = {This is Forty: The Anniversary of Roe v. Wade}, journal = {newyorker.com}, number = {January 18, 2013}, year = {2013}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/01/this-is-forty-the-anniversary-of-roe-v-wade.html}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @book {33048, title = {Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin}, year = {2013}, note = {{\textquotedblleft}From scraps and whispers, Jill Lepore has resurrected Ben Franklin{\textquoteright}s youngest sister, the only relative who could truthfully say, {\textquoteleft}every line from him was a pleasure.{\textquoteright} The subject is tailor-made for Lepore, as artful a writer as she is exact a scholar. She delivers two marvels at once: an authentic eighteenth- century female voice, cheerful, inquisitive, and saucy, as well as an intimate portrait of Jane Franklin{\textquoteright}s revered brother himself.{\textquotedblright} {\textendash}STACY SCHIFF, author of Cleopatra {\textquotedblleft}An ardently told life story, brimming with love and loss against a background of political strife and war. Jill Lepore opens a smeared casement on the life of Jane, Benjamin Franklin{\textquoteright}s gifted sister, confidante, and lifelong correspondent. While Benjamin was able to forge a path to greatness from his obscure beginnings, Jane, trapped by gender, starved of education, was not. The contrast between the two destinies is by turns captivating, enraging, and profoundly moving. As Lepore sheds light on this one unsung life, she brilliantly illuminates an entire era.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash}GERALDINE BROOKS, author of March {\textquotedblleft}This poetic and powerful diptych takes readers on a fascinating journey. With consummate skill, Lepore moves us beyond the story of a famous brother and his woebegone sister, instead bringing both Benny and Jenny{\textemdash}and the relationship between them{\textemdash}to life. A book to ponder and prose to savor.{\textquotedblright} {\textendash}LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH, author of A Midwife{\textquoteright}s Tale {\textquotedblleft}With careful and ingenious research, Jill Lepore uncovers the surprising life of the obscure sister to a very famous man. This eloquent book reveals two remarkable siblings and their intertwined and revolutionary lives.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash}ALAN TAYLOR, author of The Civil War of 1812 {\textquotedblleft}This is a brilliant and delightful book! By weaving together the tales of Benjamin Franklin and his beloved little sister, Jill Lepore creates a richly textured tapestry of life in early America. deeply researched and passionately written, it brings us inside a poignant relationship between two lovable people who seemed so different but were also so connected. i devoured this book and will treasure it.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash}WALTER ISAACSON, author of Steve Jobs}, publisher = {Knopf}, organization = {Knopf}, address = {New York}, abstract = {A Finalist for the 2013 National Book Award for Nonfiction From one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians, a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin{\textquoteright}s youngest sister and a history of history itself. Like her brother, Jane Franklin was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd political commentator. Unlike him, she was a mother of twelve. Benjamin Franklin, who wrote more letters to his sister than he wrote to anyone else, was the original American self-made man; his sister spent her life caring for her children. They left very different traces behind. Making use of an amazing cache of little- studied material, including documents, objects, and portraits only just discovered, Jill Lepore brings Jane Franklin to life in a way that illuminates not only this one woman but an entire world{\textemdash}a world usually lost to history. Lepore{\textquoteright}s life of Jane Franklin, with its strikingly original vantage on her remarkable brother, is at once a wholly different account of the founding of the United States and one of the great untold stories of American history and letters: a life unknown.}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @webarticle {45406, title = {Lockdown}, journal = {newyorker.com}, number = {12 15 2012}, year = {2012}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/12/lockdown.html}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {39886, title = {Tax Time: Why we pay}, journal = {The New Yorker}, number = {November 26, 2012}, year = {2012}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/11/26/121126fa_fact_lepore}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @newspaperarticle {37563, title = {Underdogged}, journal = {New York Times}, year = {2012}, month = {09/23/2012}, url = {http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/underdogged/}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @webarticle {37481, title = {On the Campaign Trail}, journal = {newyorker.com}, year = {2012}, month = {19 Sep 2012}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/09/a-history-of-political-consultants.html$\#$slide_ss_0=1}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {37349, title = {The Lie Factory: How politics became a business}, journal = {The New Yorker}, number = {September 24, 2012}, year = {2012}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/09/24/120924fa_fact_lepore}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {36177, title = {The Unseen: How a magazine article became a declaration of war on poverty}, journal = {Smithsonian}, number = {September 2012}, year = {2012}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @newspaperarticle {35721, title = {From Cradle to Grave: Lepore{\textquoteright}s {\textquoteright}Mansion{\textquoteright}}, journal = {Harvard Gazette}, year = {2012}, month = {08/09/12}, url = {http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/08/from-cradle-to-grave-through-history/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing\&utm_medium=email\&utm_campaign=08.09.12\%2520\%281\%29\&utm_content}, author = {Koch, Kathryn} } @webarticle {35028, title = {Batman{\textquoteright}s Gun: Why the Comic-Book Hero Was Disarmed}, journal = {newyorker.com}, year = {2012}, month = {24 July 2012}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/07/gun-laws-and-batman.html }, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {35027, title = {Sorry! Obama, Romney and the Game of Politics}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {June 30, 2012}, year = {2012}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2012/07/30/120730taco_talk_lepore }, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {33774, title = {Obama, The Prequel: An Origin Story}, journal = {The New Yorker}, number = {June 25, 2012}, year = {2012}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2012/06/25/120625crbo_books_lepore}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @webarticle {33765, title = {Elegy for a School Year}, journal = {newyorker.com}, year = {2012}, month = {15 Jun 2012}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/06/end-of-2012-school-year.html}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @newspaperarticle {33724, title = {Death, Sex, and Vampires}, journal = {New York Times}, year = {2012}, month = {06/02/12}, url = {http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/opinion/sunday/abraham-lincoln-vampire-hunter.html}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {33725, title = {Benched: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Judicial Independence}, journal = {The New Yorker}, number = {June 18, 2012}, year = {2012}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/06/18/120618crat_atlarge_lepore}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @webarticle {33034, title = {The Life of Julia}, journal = {newyorker.com}, year = {2012}, month = {7 May 2012}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/05/the-life-of-julia.html}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @webarticle {33033, title = {Overexposed}, journal = {newyorker.com}, year = {2012}, month = {11 May 2012}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/05/breastfeeding-time-magazine-cover.html}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @webarticle {32185, title = {The Lost Amendment}, journal = {newyorker.com}, year = {2012}, month = {19 Apr 2012}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/04/the-second-amendment.html}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @magazinearticle {32032, title = {Battleground America: One Nation, Under the Gun}, journal = {The New Yorker}, number = {April 23, 2012}, year = {2012}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/04/23/120423fa_fact_lepore}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @webarticle {30763, title = {Look It Up}, journal = {newyorker.com}, year = {2012}, month = {14 March 2012}, url = {http://nyr.kr/yZA2eb}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @webarticle {28763, title = {Komen{\textquoteright}s Choice}, journal = {newyorker.com}, year = {2012}, month = {3 Feb 2012}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/02/two-sisters-komen-and-planned-parenthood.html}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @book {9903, title = {The Story of America: Essays on Origins}, year = {2012}, note = {"As both a Jeremiah and a troubadour, Jill Lepore has one of the most distinctive voices in American literary life. So skilled in the art of the essay, she has a sense of narrative that is breathtaking. She tells resounding, surprising stories about real people forging American roots and development, but always through a deeply documented history. Both subtly and explosively, Lepore brings the power of history right into your lap and makes you shudder at just how deeply tangled past and present really are."--David W. Blight, author of American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era {\textquotedblleft}Jill Lepore is one of America{\textquoteright}s most interesting scholars {\textemdash} a distinguished historian and a brilliant essayist. This prolific collection of articles and essays is a remarkable body of work that moves from early America to our present, contentious age.{\textquotedblright} -- Alan Brinkley, author of The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century "Jill Lepore is one of our finest historians of the battle over the story called {\textquoteright}America{\textquoteright} which, as she says, is constantly being fought over and over. In this stunning collection of essays, Lepore makes the case that the rise of democracy is bound up with the history of its reading and writing. That history is conflicted, ragged, and contradictory but, in Lepore{\textquoteright}s capable hands, as gripping and compelling as a novel."--Cathy N. Davidson, Duke University }, publisher = {Princeton University Press}, organization = {Princeton University Press}, address = {Princeton and Oxford}, abstract = {A finalist for the 2013 PEN Literary Award for the Art of the Essay In The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories{\textemdash}from John Smith{\textquoteright}s account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama{\textquoteright}s 2009 inaugural address{\textemdash}to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of print. Over the centuries, Americans have read and written their way into a political culture of ink and type. Part civics primer, part cultural history, The Story of America excavates the origins of everything from the paper ballot and the Constitution to the I.O.U. and the dictionary. Along the way it presents fresh readings of Benjamin Franklin{\textquoteright}s Way to Wealth; Thomas Paine{\textquoteright}s Common Sense; {\textquotedblleft}The Raven,{\textquotedblright} by Edgar Allan Poe; and {\textquotedblleft}Paul Revere{\textquoteright}s Ride,{\textquotedblright} by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; as well as histories of lesser-known genres, including biographies of presidents, novels of immigrants, and accounts of the Depression. From past to present, Lepore argues, Americans have wrestled with the idea of democracy by telling stories. In this thoughtful and provocative book, Lepore offers at once a history of origin stories and a meditation on storytelling itself. }, author = {J Lepore} } @book {9873, title = {The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death}, year = {2012}, note = {{\textquotedblleft}A trenchant and fascinating intellectual history of life and death{\textellipsis}elegant.{\textquotedblright} {\textendash}The New York Times Book Review {\textquotedblleft}Come expecting to be entertained, educated, and given several helpful new ways to think about the stages of life and what lies beyond{\textellipsis}Lepore has mastered the neat trick of writing imaginatively and often humorously for a general audience without checking her scholarly swing{\textellipsis}she gets you thinking like she does, and you can ask no more from a historian.{\textquotedblright} {\textendash}The Daily Beast {\textquotedblleft}Lepore has a brilliant way of selecting just the right historical detail to illuminate a larger point{\textellipsis}The most valuable lesson here is that of impermanence. Everything changes. And although, as Lepore writes, {\textquoteleft}it{\textquoteright}s best to have a plan,{\textquoteright} as her multifaceted, sometimes dizzying joyride of a book reveals, the next roll of dice could, in fact, change everything.{\textquotedblright} {\textendash}Boston Sunday Globe {\textquotedblleft}[Lepore] manages to spin a larger narrative that both fascinates and informs, showing that our taken-for-granted ideas about every stage of life are culturally specific, very much a product of our times.{\textquotedblright} {\textendash}The Washington Post {\textquotedblleft}Brilliantly written and engaging throughout. . . . A sharp, illuminating history of ideas. . . . A superb examination of the never-ending effort to enhance life, as well as the commensurate refusal to ever let it go.{\textquotedblright} {\textendash}Kirkus Reviews (starred review) {\textquotedblleft}One of the pleasures of Lepore{\textquoteright}s work is the way she uses a single, deftly chosen artifact to crack open a much wider cultural vista{\textellipsis}If the bonds between the disparate subjects and motifs in The Mansion of Happiness sometimes seem to be sustained by Lepore{\textquoteright}s own personal version of extraordinary measures, there are plenty that hold firm. They can{\textquoteright}t be disputed or endorsed like traditional theories, but they can dazzle and illuminate and inspire. And that{\textquoteright}s just what they do.{\textquotedblright} {\textendash}Salon {\textquotedblleft}Each sentence brims, each paragraph delights. Taken together these essays are more than the sum of their parts. They are an inquiry into how we think about being alive.{\textquotedblright} {\textendash}Smithsonian "Written with sardonic wit and penetrating intelligence, The Mansion of Happiness is a fascinating and startlingly original guide to the ways in which the human life-cycle has been imagined, manipulated, managed, marketed, and debased in modern times. Lepore weaves her way brilliantly along the mazy track that leads from the egg in which life{\textquoteright}s game begins to the giant freezers in which certain crack-brained visionaries hope to defeat death itself. A fast-paced, hilarious, angry, poignant, and richly illuminating book."--Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern "Equip a profound scholar with H. L. Mencken{\textquoteright}s instinct for running down charlatans and chuckleheads, and you get this book It will amuse and embarrass those of us ever befuddled by the rogues in her gallery."--Garry Wills, author of Lincoln at Gettysburg "A series of engaging and wonderfully perceptive essays on how individuals caught in time made sense of life and death. Jill Lepore is one of America{\textquoteright}s most accomplished and imaginative historians."--Linda Colley, author of The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh "With wit and erudition, Lepore demonstrates that nothing is more mutable and time-bound than our most cherished notions about the supposedly eternal verities of life and death."---Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason Available at: Amazon Barnes and Noble iBookstore Powells Indiebound Random House}, publisher = {Knopf}, organization = {Knopf}, address = {New York}, abstract = {A finalist for the 2013 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has written a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? {\textquotedblleft}All anyone can do is ask,{\textquotedblright} Lepore writes. {\textquotedblleft}That{\textquoteright}s why any history of ideas about life and death has to be, like this book, a history of curiosity.{\textquotedblright} Lepore starts that history with the story of a seventeenth-century Englishman who had the idea that all life begins with an egg, and ends it with an American who, in the 1970s, began freezing the dead. In between, life got longer, the stages of life multiplied, and matters of life and death moved from the library to the laboratory, from the humanities to the sciences. Lately, debates about life and death have determined the course of American politics. Each of these debates has a history. Investigating the surprising origins of the stuff of everyday life{\textemdash}from board games to breast pumps{\textemdash}Lepore argues that the age of discovery, Darwin, and the Space Age turned ideas about life on earth topsy-turvy. {\textquotedblleft}New worlds were found,{\textquotedblright} she writes, and {\textquotedblleft}old paradises were lost.{\textquotedblright} As much a meditation on the present as an excavation of the past, The Mansion of Happiness is delightful, learned, and altogether beguiling.}, author = {J Lepore} } @webarticle {26807, title = {Old School: Fifteen Retro Revivals}, journal = {newyorker.com}, year = {2011}, month = {2 Dec 2011}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/12/old-school-fifteen-retro-revivals.html}, author = {J Lepore} } @webarticle {26465, title = {Personhood and Parenthood}, journal = {newyorker.com}, year = {2011}, month = {9 Nov 2011}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/11/personhood-and-parenthood.html}, author = {J Lepore} } @broadcast {26464, title = {How birth control and abortion became politicized}, journal = {Fresh Air}, year = {2011}, publisher = {NPR}, url = {http://www.npr.org/2011/11/09/142097521/how-birth-control-and-abortion-became-politicized?sc=tw\&cc=freshair}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {26393, title = {Birthright: What{\textquoteright}s next for Planned Parenthood}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2011}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/11/14/111114fa_fact_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @newspaperarticle {25719, title = {Forget 9-9-9}, journal = {New York Times}, year = {2011}, month = {10/16/2011}, author = {J Lepore} } @webarticle {25520, title = {Wall Street Protests: Cash-Roots}, journal = {newyorker.com}, year = {2011}, month = {6 October 2011}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/10/wall-street-protests-cash-roots.html}, author = {J Lepore} } @webarticle {25460, title = {An American King}, journal = {newyorker.com}, year = {2011}, month = {29 September 201}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2011/09/an-american-king-noah-websters-holy-bible.html}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {23541, title = {Dickens in Eden: Summer Vacation with Great Expectations}, journal = {The New Yorker}, number = {August 29, 2011}, year = {2011}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/08/29/110829fa_fact_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @webarticle {19598, title = {"Obituary for an Immortal Man"}, journal = {newyorker.com}, year = {2011}, month = {July 26, 2011}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/07/robert-ettinger-cryonics-obituary.html}, author = {J Lepore} } @webarticle {15152, title = {"The Hyperlore of Paul Revere"}, journal = {newyorker.com}, year = {2011}, month = {June 6, 2011}, url = { http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/06/the-hyperlore-of-paul-revere.html }, author = {J Lepore} } @broadcast {12008, title = {A Long View of the Tea Party}, journal = {The Emily Rooney Show}, year = {2011}, publisher = {WGBH}, url = {http://www.wgbh.org/programs/The-Emily-Rooney-Show-854/episodes/Wednesday-May-18thA-Long-View-Of-The-Tea-Party-29003}, author = {J Lepore} } @broadcast {12007, title = {Past and Present with Jill Lepore: The Parrot Fever Panic}, journal = {The Brian Lehrer Show}, year = {2011}, publisher = {WNYC}, url = {http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/2011/may/19/past-and-present-jill-lapore-parrot-fever-panic/?utm_source=feedburner\&utm_medium=feed\&utm_campaign=Feed\%3A+wnyc_home+(WNYC+New+York+Public+Radio)}, author = {J Lepore} } @webarticle {11645, title = {"Dickens Watches the Budget Debate"}, journal = {newyorker.com}, year = {2011}, month = {April 8, 2011}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/04/charles-dickens-watches-the-budget-debate.html}, author = {J Lepore} } @webarticle {11644, title = {"An Horrid Snow"}, journal = {newyorker.com}, year = {2011}, month = {February 2, 2011}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/02/an-horrid-snow.html}, author = {J Lepore} } @webarticle {11642, title = {"The Wise of Heart"}, journal = {newyorker.com}, year = {2011}, month = {May 17, 2011}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/05/lawyers-on-film-the-wise-of-heart.html}, author = {J Lepore} } @webarticle {11472, title = {"Blatherskites"}, journal = {newyorker.com}, year = {2011}, month = {May 16, 2011}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/05/blatherskites.html}, author = {J Lepore} } @webarticle {11423, title = {"Not Everyone is Toppled"}, journal = {Room for Debate, nytimes.com}, year = {2011}, month = {15 May 2011}, url = {http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/05/15/when-political-campaigns-turn-private-lives-public/not-everyone-is-toppled}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {11424, title = {Objection: Clarence Darrow{\textquoteright}s Unfinished Work}, journal = {The New Yorker}, number = {May 23, 2011}, year = {2011}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/23/110523fa_fact_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @broadcast {11374, title = {Past and Present with Jill Lepore: The Politics of Death}, journal = {The Brian Lehrer Show}, year = {2011}, publisher = {WNYC}, url = {http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/2011/may/12/past-and-present-jill-lepore-politics-death/}, author = {J Lepore} } @article {10068, title = {The Uses of American History: An Interview with Jill Lepore}, journal = {Historically Speaking (Project MUSE)}, volume = {12}, number = {2}, year = {2011}, pages = {23-24}, abstract = {Historically Speaking editor Randall Stephens spoke with Lepore about the uses of history, the politicization of the past, and writing for the general public.}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {10067, title = {History lessons}, journal = {CommonWealth}, year = {2011}, abstract = {Jill Lepore says the Tea Party movement has embraced an approach to American history that is more rooted in religious fundamentalism than in any serious examination of the past.}, url = {http://www.commonwealthmagazine.org/Voices/Conversation/2011/Spring/History-lessons.aspx}, author = {J Lepore} } @broadcast {10066, title = {Past and Present With Jill Lepore: The 1765 Death of Newspapers}, journal = {The Brian Lehrer Show}, year = {2011}, publisher = {WNYC}, url = {http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/2011/may/04/past-and-present/}, author = {J Lepore} } @webarticle {9930, title = {"Our Second Gilded Age"}, journal = {Room for Debate, nytimes.com}, year = {2011}, month = {20 April 2011}, url = {http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/01/10/assassins-and-american-history/what-thomas-jefferson-would-say}, author = {J Lepore} } @webarticle {9928, title = {"A Good Bad Guy"}, journal = {Room for Debate, nytimes.com}, year = {2011}, month = {10 January 2011}, url = {http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2010/10/10/hating-woodrow-wilson/why-woodrow-wilson-makes-a-good-bad-guy}, author = {J Lepore} } @inbook {9830, title = {{\textquotedblleft}A World of Paine{\textquotedblright}}, booktitle = {Revolutionary Founders}, year = {2011}, publisher = {Knopf}, organization = {Knopf}, address = {New York}, author = {J Lepore}, editor = {G Nash and A Young and R Raphael} } @article {9827, title = {How Longfellow Woke the Dead}, journal = {The American Scholar}, volume = {81}, year = {2011}, note = {Reprinted, abridged, in American Educator (Summer 2011): 26-29, 30. http://www.aft.org/pdfs/americaneducator/summer2011/Lepore.pdf}, pages = {2-15}, url = {http://www.theamericanscholar.org/how-longfellow-woke-the-dead/}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9618, title = {Twilight: Growing old and even older}, journal = {The New Yorker}, number = {March 14, 2011}, year = {2011}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/03/14/110314fa_fact_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9622, title = {The Commandments: the Constitution and its worshippers}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2011}, note = {January 17, 2011}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/01/17/110117crat_atlarge_lepore?currentPage=6}, author = {J Lepore} } @newspaperarticle {9235, title = {Poor Jane{\textquoteright}s Almanac}, journal = {New York Times}, year = {2011}, month = {April 24, 2011}, pages = {WK8}, chapter = {Opinion}, url = {http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/opinion/24lepore.html}, author = {J Lepore} } @broadcast {16375, title = {"The Tea Party ... The True Heirs to the American Revolution?"}, journal = {The Sunday Edition}, year = {2010}, publisher = {CBC}, url = {http://www.cbc.ca/thesundayedition/books/2010/11/08/the-tea-partythe-true-heirs-to-the-american-revolution/}, author = {J Lepore} } @mastersthesis {10239, title = {"Numberless Acts of Kindness: Medicine, Revolution, and the Unusual Career of Dr. John Jeffries, 1770-1791{\textquotedblright}}, year = {2010}, note = {2009-2010 }, type = {History}, author = {Kaplan, Laura} } @mastersthesis {10238, title = {{\textquotedblleft}{\textquoteleft}Shoemaker, stick to thy last{\textquoteright}: Ebenezer Mackintosh and the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765{\textquotedblright}}, year = {2010}, note = {2009-2010 }, type = {History and Literature}, author = {Phaneuf, Jeffrey} } @mastersthesis {10237, title = {{\textquotedblleft}{\textquoteleft}Books Like These Are Burned!{\textquoteright}: The 1933 Nazi Book Burnings in American Historical Memory{\textquotedblright}}, year = {2010}, note = {2009-2010 Dissertation Advisor: Jill Lepore }, type = {History and Literature}, author = {E Graff} } @broadcast {10070, title = {Jill Lepore: Tea Party Time{\textellipsis} and the Death of Compassion}, journal = {Radio Open Source}, year = {2010}, note = {There{\textquoteright}s more religion than politics in the 2010 Tea Party, Jill Lepore is saying. There{\textquoteright}s less of 1776 about it than of 1976 {\textemdash} that dyspeptic post-Vietnam, post-Watergate bicentennial moment remembered for Gerald Ford and school busing fights in Boston elsewhere. 1976 marks a time when we discovered that the story of the American revolution is that {\textquotedblleft}there is no story,{\textquotedblright} as the Common Ground journalist Anthony Lukas put it. {\textquotedblleft}What there is is a political free-for-all about the story.{\textquotedblright} {\textquotedblleft}That{\textquoteright}s where we are today,{\textquotedblright} Jill Lepore observes. {\textquotedblleft}The whole question: {\textquoteleft}what would the founding fathers do?{\textquoteright} comes out of evangelical Chistianity, as in {\textquoteleft}what would Jesus do?{\textquoteright} {\textellipsis} Glenn Beck talks about having had a conversion experience{\textellipsis} The Tea Party movement presents the Constitution as a revealed religion.{\textquotedblright} Jill Lepore is one of those historians who draws gladly on {\textquotedblleft}the archives of the feet,{\textquotedblright} in Simon Schama{\textquoteright}s phrase. For her sprightly New Yorker Magazine pieces and now for The Whites of Their Eyes, her hard-cover take on the Tea Party movement, she has been out among the tri-corner hat crowd at the Green Dragon Tavern facing Faneuil Hall. She was with Sarah Palin on Boston Common. She extends civic respect to the pitchfork patriots, but her judgment is unsparing: the tea partiers are misled by heritage tourism and pop biographies of the 18th Century revolutionists into supposing {\textquotedblleft}I{\textquoteright}m just like them,{\textquotedblright} or that {\textquotedblleft}I{\textquoteright}m in touch with them {\textquoteright}cause I{\textquoteright}m wearing one of their hats.{\textquotedblright} Their founding favorites draw on celebrity culture, not history: there{\textquoteright}s too little in their heads about the crucial anti-religious Thomas Paine of {\textquotedblleft}The Age of Reason,{\textquotedblright} and too much Paul Revere (not much known for the Midnight Ride before Longfellow wrote the poem in 1861, a Union rallying myth during the Civil War). So what are they, and this moment, really about?}, publisher = {Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University}, url = {http://www.radioopensource.org/jill-lepore-tea-party-time-and-the-death-of-compassion/}, author = {J Lepore} } @broadcast {9985, title = {The Tea Party, A Modern Movement}, journal = {Talk of the Nation}, year = {2010}, note = {Frank Newport, editor-in-chief, Gallup Poll Mychal Massie, chairman of Project 21 Jill Lepore, professor of history, Harvard}, publisher = {NPR}, abstract = {The Tea Party movement mystifies outsiders on the left and the right. Tea Party activists often describe themselves as patriots, who stand for limited government, lower taxes and fiscal responsibility. Critics have charged members with everything from lack of focus to racism.}, url = {http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126390876}, author = {J Lepore} } @broadcast {9983, title = {Interview}, journal = {The Callie Crossley Show}, year = {2010}, publisher = {WGBH}, author = {J Lepore} } @broadcast {9978, title = {The Battle Over American History}, journal = {RadioWest: Inside NewsRoom}, year = {2010}, publisher = {KUER}, abstract = {There{\textquoteright}s a lot of talk these days about the ideals of the American Revolution, but historian Jill Lepore says the Tea Party isn{\textquoteright}t the first to yearn for the past. In the Civil War, both sides claimed the revolution. Civil rights leaders and segregationists said they were the sons of liberty. The problem, Lepore says, is that people are talking about an America that never was. Thursday, she joins us to talk about the struggle for independence, and the part it continues to play in our imagination.}, url = {http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kuer/news.newsmain/article/184/0/1701153/RadioWest.\%28M-F..11AM..and..7PM\%29/91610.The.Battle.Over.American.History}, author = {J Lepore} } @broadcast {9977, title = {Tea Party discussion}, journal = {Americana}, year = {2010}, note = {GUESTS Political commentator Michelle Bernard is the president of The Independent Women{\textquoteright}s Forum. She is an outspoken commentator on issues of political participation, international democracy and the rights of women. John Heilemann is a national political columnist for New York magazine and co-authored the book {\textquotedblleft}Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime". Keli Carender is credited with organizing one of the first Tea Party rallies- she reflects on how the movement has blossomed. From Alaska, Tea Party candidate Joe Miller explains his hopes for change in America. Harvard University Professor Jill Lepore is the author of, "The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party{\textquoteright}s Revolution and the Battle over American History." She explains how she thinks the Tea Party has crafted a fable from American history in order to propel its message The Whites of Their Eyes:The Tea Party{\textquoteright}s Revolution and the Battle over American History }, publisher = {BBC}, abstract = {As members of the Tea Party movement campaign enthusiastically ahead of this year{\textquoteright}s midterm elections, the political analyst Michelle Bernard and the national political columnist John Heilemann parse what members, supporters and scholars have to say about the Tea Party. Keli Carender is credited with organising one of the first Tea Party rallies - she reflects on how the movement has blossomed. The Tea Party candidate Joe Miller from Alaska explains his hopes for change in America. A Harvard University Professor, Jill Lepore, explains how she thinks the Tea Party has crafted a fable from American history in order to propel its message.}, url = {http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00txgfj}, author = {J Lepore} } @broadcast {9975, title = {The Tea Party and The Battle Over American History}, journal = {Radio Boston}, year = {2010}, publisher = {WBUR}, abstract = {The rhetoric of the Tea Party is peppered with references to the American Revolution. And the eponymous event {\textemdash} the one that took place in 1773, when the Sons of Liberty emptied hundreds of crates of British Tea into the Boston Harbor {\textemdash} is just one such example. But the modern-day Tea Party is hardly the first political movement to use the past as political fodder. That issue is at the heart of a forthcoming book by Jill Lepore, the New Yorker writer and Harvard historian. In the {\textquotedblleft}The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party{\textquoteright}s Revolution and the Battle over American History,{\textquotedblright} historian and writer Jill Lepore says the 1773 Tea Party has been a political device for many groups over the years.}, url = {http://radioboston.wbur.org/2010/09/29/tea-party-4}, author = {J Lepore} } @broadcast {9974, title = {Fact-Checking the Tea Party}, journal = {The Conversation}, year = {2010}, publisher = {KUOW}, abstract = {Tea party activists and their leaders like Glen Beck claim they follow what the founding fathers intended. Harvard history professor and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore says 18th century history is a bit messier than they might realize. She talks about the battle over the meaning of history in her book "The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party{\textquoteright}s Revolution and the Battle over American History."}, url = {http://www.kuow.org/program.php?id=21700}, author = {J Lepore} } @newspaperarticle {9972, title = {THE PARTY OF ANTIHISTORY Harvard historian Jill Lepore lays a charge at the Tea Party: abuse of history}, journal = {Boston Globe}, year = {2010}, month = {Oct. 31, 2010}, url = {http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/10/31/the_party_of_antihistory/?page=full}, author = {J Lepore} } @webarticle {9971, title = {The Exchange: Jill Lepore on the Tea Party{\textquoteright}s {\textquotedblleft}Dangerous Anti-Pluralism{\textquotedblright}}, journal = {newyorker.com}, year = {2010}, month = {Nov. 1, 2010}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2010/11/the-exchange-jill-lepore-on-the-tea-partys-dangerous-antipluralism.html}, author = {J Lepore} } @broadcast {9970, title = {Jill Lepore: The Tea Party and The Battle Over American History}, journal = {Speakers{\textquoteright} Forum}, year = {2010}, publisher = {KUOW}, abstract = {Members of the modern tea party movement take their cues from history. The only problem is the history books they read are often wrong. But that{\textquoteright}s no reason to look down on them argues Harvard historian Jill Lepore. In fact, she says, most of us don{\textquoteright}t have our facts straight when it comes to the founding of this country. Most kids learn about the American Revolution in elementary school, and they rarely visit the subject again in college. The Boston Tea Party, the Continental Congress, the entire fight for independence and the creation of a new government {\textemdash} our versions of these stories are often legends filled with exaggeration and oversimplification. Lepore visited Seattle in October, 2010, to talk about her book "The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party{\textquoteright}s Revolution and the Battle over American History." But her talk was not a condemnation of the far right wing. Instead, Lepore showed how both ends of the political spectrum have misrepresented history to further their causes, and she puts most of the blame on her own profession. If historians did a better job teaching this stuff, she points out, we{\textquoteright}d all be better off. }, url = {http://www.kuow.org/program.php?id=21981}, author = {J Lepore} } @webarticle {9929, title = {"What Thomas Jefferson Would Say"}, journal = {Room for Debate, nytimes.com}, year = {2010}, month = {10 October 2010}, url = {http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/01/10/assassins-and-american-history/what-thomas-jefferson-would-say}, author = {J Lepore} } @broadcast {9981, title = {Book TV: A Panel Discussion on the Tea Party with Armey, Zernike, Lepore and Carlson}, year = {2010}, publisher = {National Press Club}, type = {video}, address = {Washington, DC}, abstract = {A panel discussion on the Tea Party. The participants present their thoughts the Party{\textquoteright}s supporters, what they stand for and their potential impact to the upcoming 2010 mid-term elections. The panelists include Dick Armey, former House majority leader, chairman of FreedomWorks and author of Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto, Kate Zernike, national correspondent with the New York Times and author of Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America, Jill Lepore, history professor at Harvard University and author of The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party{\textquoteright}s Revolution and the Battle Over American History, and Tucker Carlson, editor in chief of The Daily Caller. The event is hosted by the National Press Club in Washington, DC.}, url = {http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pAb9kvdlC4}, author = {J Lepore} } @book {9874, title = {The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party{\textquoteright}s Revolution and the Battle over American History}, year = {2010}, note = {New York Times Book Review Editors{\textquoteright} Choice. {\textquotedblleft}Jill Lepore is a national treasure.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Adam Hochschild, author of Bury the Chains {\textquotedblleft}The Whites of Their Eyes shows Jill Lepore at her remarkable best{\textemdash}accessible, authoritative, and wise.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Nine {\textquotedblleft}Lepore demolishes the Tea Party{\textquoteright}s founding fable with deep scholarship and devastating wit.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic {\textquotedblleft}The Whites of Their Eyes offers the most compelling look we have so far at who we were and who we have become as a nation.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University "A lesson in what history actually is."{\textemdash}Eric Foner, author of Reconstruction {\textquotedblleft}Learned, lively and shrewd.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Kirkus Reviews (starred review) {\textquotedblleft}[A] brief but valuable book . . . which combines her own interviews with Tea Partiers . . . and her deep knowledge of the founders and of their view of the Constitution.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash}New York Times {\textquotedblleft}Lepore is a better reporter than any historian, and a better historian than any reporter.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash} Daily Beast {\textquotedblleft}What Lepore does best is rescue forgotten people and moments from the Revolutionary era and remind us beautifully of the many-layered power of place.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash} Philadelphia Inquirer {\textquotedblleft}A trenchant, lively and devastating meditation on the uses and abuses of American history.{\textquotedblright}-- St. Louis Post-Dispatch {\textquotedblleft}A fascinating attempt to raise the level of US public policy debate ... and should be read by anyone interested in serious political debate.{\textquotedblright}-- ForeWord }, publisher = {Princeton University Press}, organization = {Princeton University Press}, address = {Princeton and Oxford}, abstract = { Americans have always put the past to political ends. The Union laid claim to the Revolution--so did the Confederacy. Civil rights leaders said they were the true sons of liberty--so did Southern segregationists. This book tells the story of the centuries-long struggle over the meaning of the nation{\textquoteright}s founding, including the battle waged by the Tea Party, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and evangelical Christians to "take back America." }, author = {J Lepore} } @article {9829, title = {How To Write a Paper for This Class}, journal = {Historically Speaking}, volume = {11}, number = {1}, year = {2010}, note = {January }, pages = {19-20}, author = {Lepore, Jill} } @newspaperarticle {9832, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Hidebound{\textquotedblright}}, journal = {Times Literary Supplement}, year = {2010}, month = {09/10/2010}, url = {http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/tls_selections/history/}, author = {J Lepore} } @webarticle {9603, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Tea Leaves{\textquotedblright}}, journal = {The Daily Beast}, year = {2010}, month = {September 2010}, author = {J Lepore} } @newspaperarticle {9602, title = {Paul Revere{\textquoteright}s Ride against Slavery}, journal = {New York Times}, year = {2010}, month = {12/18/2010}, pages = {WK8}, chapter = {Opinion}, url = {http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/opinion/19Lepore.html}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9625, title = {His Highness: George Washington scales new heights}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2010}, note = {September 27, 2010}, url = {The New Yorker, September 27, 2010}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9624, title = {Too Much Information: Books about the birds and the bees}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2010}, note = {New Yorker issue: October 18, 2010 Italian translation printed in The Internazionale, 2011}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2010/10/18/101018crat_atlarge_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9626, title = {The Uprooted: Chronicling the Great Migration}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2010}, note = {September 6, 2010}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/09/06/100906crbo_books_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9629, title = {Tea and Sympathy: Who owns the American Revolution?}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2010}, note = {May 3, 2010}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/05/03/100503fa_fact_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9628, title = {Chan, the Man: On the trail of the honorable detective}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2010}, note = {August 9, 2010}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/08/09/100809crbo_books_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9636, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Iceman: What the leader of the cryonics movement is really preserving{\textquotedblright}}, journal = {The New Yorker}, volume = {January 10, 2014}, year = {2010}, note = {January 25, 2010}, abstract = {AMERICAN CHRONICLES about Robert C. W. Ettinger, a founder of the cryonics movement. Robert C. W. Ettinger is ninety-one years old and he is a founder of the cryonics movement. When he dies, the blood will be drained from his body, antifreeze will be pumped into his arteries, and holes will be drilled in his skull, after which he will be stored in a vat of liquid nitrogen at minus three hundred and twenty degrees Fahrenheit. He expects to be defrosted, sometime between fifty and two hundred years from now, by scientists who will make him young and strong and tireless. Ettinger has already frozen his mother and his two wives, along with ninety-two other people who await resurrection inside giant freezers in a building just a few blocks from his house, in Clinton Township, Michigan. The Cryonics Institute occupies a seven-thousand-square-foot warehouse in an industrial park. Past a shabby waiting room is the small office of Andy Zawacki, who constitutes half of C.I.{\textquoteright}s full-time staff. He is also one of C.I.{\textquoteright}s more than eight hundred members, which means that he plans to be frozen when he dies. The writer visited the freezer storage area. There were fourteen cylindrical freezers. Each held six patients, and all but four were filled. There were also three older, rectangular freezers. The writer asked if the corpses were put in canisters within the cylinders. {\textquotedblleft}No, in sleeping bags,{\textquotedblright} Ettinger said. Ettinger was born in Atlantic City in December of 1918. His mother{\textquoteright}s family came from Odessa; his father was born in Germany. In about 1922, the family moved to Detroit. When he was eight years old, Ettinger started reading Amazing Stories, a sci-fi magazine. Ettinger dates his interest in immortality to 1931, when he read {\textquotedblleft}The Jameson Satellite.{\textquotedblright} Mentions Ted Williams{\textquoteright}s head, which was frozen and stored at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, C.I.{\textquoteright}s chief rival. {\textquotedblleft}Neuropreservation{\textquotedblright} has a scientific attitude, but that doesn{\textquoteright}t make it science. Credentialled laboratory scientists don{\textquoteright}t generally think the dead will one day awaken. The consensus appears to be that when you try to defrost a frozen corpse you get mush. And even if, in the future, scientists could repair the damage done to cells by freezing and thawing, what they would have, at best, is a cadaver. Ettinger announced the dawn of what he called the Freezer Era at the height of the Cold War. His book, {\textquotedblleft}The Prospect of Immortality,{\textquotedblright} appeared in 1964, the year {\textquotedblleft}Dr. Strangelove{\textquotedblright} hit theatres. When the book came out, Ettinger became something of a star. The first human being was frozen in 1966; it went badly, and the body had to be buried a few months later. The following year, a man was frozen by an organization that later became the Cryonics Society of California. Ettinger{\textquoteright}s father and brother were not frozen; they {\textquotedblleft}were lost.{\textquotedblright} His first patient was his mother, Rhea, whom he froze in 1977. His second patient was his first wife, Elaine, who died in 1987. He remarried the following year. His second wife, Mae, suffered a stroke in 2000, and she was frozen as well. Ettinger finds nothing so uninteresting as history. Describes the writer and Ettinger going through his family photo albums.}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/01/25/the-iceman}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9631, title = {"Fixed: The rise of marriage therapy, and other dreams of human betterment"}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2010}, note = {March 29, 2010}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2010/03/29/100329crat_atlarge_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9630, title = {"Untimely: What was at stake in the spat between Henry Luce and Harold Ross?"}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2010}, note = {April 12, 2010}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2010/04/19/100419crat_atlarge_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @mastersthesis {10240, title = {"{\textquoteright}This Slavery Breeds Ugly Passions in Man{\textquoteright}: Herman Melville{\textquoteright}s "Benito Cereno" and the Fugitive Slave Trials in 1850s Boston{\textquotedblright}}, year = {2009}, note = {2008-2009 Dissertation Advisor: Jill Lepore}, type = {History and Literature}, author = {Polk, William Brian Clemenko} } @article {10086, title = {Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore: Facts and Fictions in Revolutionary Boston}, journal = {Common-place}, volume = {9}, number = {3}, year = {2009}, abstract = {Common-place asks its founding editors about their collaboratively written novel, set in Revolutionary-era Boston{\textemdash}Blindspot, a Novel, by a Gentleman in Exile and a Lady in Disguise (2008){\textemdash}and about relationships between history and fiction in general.}, url = {http://www.common-place.org/vol-09/no-03/author/}, author = {J Lepore} } @webarticle {10084, title = {Footnotes to Fiction: Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore}, journal = {www.oah.org}, year = {2009}, abstract = {What happens when historians write fiction? We decided to find out. Blindspot, our novel, is set in 1764, in Boston, a city reeling from the economic downturn following the French and Indian War, and beginning to simmer with the fires of liberty. The book tells the story of Stewart Jameson, a Scottish portrait painter fleeing debtor{\textquoteright}s prison, and Fanny Easton, the fallen daughter of one of Boston{\textquoteright}s richest merchants, who poses as a boy to gain a situation as Jameson{\textquoteright}s apprentice. Their lives take a turn when Samuel Bradstreet, Speaker of the Massachusetts Assembly, is murdered the day Jameson and Easton are to paint him.}, url = {http://www.oah.org/pubs/nl/2009feb/fiction.html}, author = {J Lepore} } @broadcast {10079, title = {Blindspot: Lepore and Kamensky in Olde Boston}, journal = {Radio Open Source}, year = {2009}, note = {Blindspot is a lark, with lessons. First, about sex and slavery in 18th Century Boston, where you didn{\textquoteright}t expect to find so much of either. And then, about the writing of serious history as delicious fiction. Blindspot was undertaken as an experiment, something of an email joke, by ranking professionals who{\textquoteright}ve been friends since grad school (Yale): Jane Kamensky, now at Brandeis, and Jill Lepore, of Harvard and The New Yorker magazine. Told in letters and journals, Blindspot, set in 1764, is a borderline kinky love story about a Scots portrait painter (think: Gilbert Stuart) who{\textquoteright}s fled his London debts to Boston, and a passionate, downwardly-mobile 19-year-old daughter of the Boston ruling class who presents herself as a boy so as to get a job as the painter{\textquoteright}s assistant. Get it? Frances Easton goes to work as Francis Weston for the portraitist Stewart Jameson. She falls in love with him, of course, and he with her {\textemdash} or him, as he supposes through most of the narrative. Fanny writes: {\textquotedblleft}I felt full prepared to open myself to him, in whatever direction he wanted, Easton or Weston.{\textquotedblright}}, publisher = {Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University}, url = {http://www.radioopensource.org/blindspot-lepore-and-kamensky-in-olde-boston/}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {10074, title = {Back Talk: Jill Lepore and Jane Kamensky}, journal = {The Nation}, year = {2009}, note = {February 2 issue}, abstract = {Jill Lepore, a professor of history at Harvard, and Jane Kamensky, a professor of history at Brandeis, met as graduate students in the 1980s. In 2007, the two began to write a historical novel. The product of that collaboration, the occasionally racy Blindspot (Spiegel \& Grau, $24.95), tells the story of the portrait painter Stewart Jameson and his apprentice, "Francis Weston," n{\'e}e Fanny Easton, the disguised daughter of a prominent Bostonian. Lepore and Kamensky compiled glossaries, consulted collections of urban slang and lifted freely from eighteenth-century sources. With each in charge of one narrator--Lepore wrote Jameson{\textquoteright}s chapters, Kamensky Easton{\textquoteright}s letters--the two volleyed passages back and forth, like "a tennis game."--Christine Smallwood}, url = {http://www.thenation.com/article/back-talk-jill-lepore-and-jane-kamensky}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {10072, title = {The Exchange: Jill Lepore and Jane Kamensky (Part 1)}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2009}, abstract = {The historical mystery "Blindspot" (Spiegel \& Grau) is a collaboration between the New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore, who is also a professor of American history and the chair of the History and Literature Program at Harvard, and Jane Kamensky, the chair of the Department of History at Brandeis. Set in Boston during the summer of 1764, against the backdrop of the colonies{\textquoteright} increasing discontent, the novel imagines the lives of Stewart Jameson, a swashbuckling Scottish portrait painter, and Fanny Easton, a young woman whose circumstances have forced her into disguise in order to serve as his painting apprentice. Lepore and Kamensky graciously took a moment to answer our questions. Below is our discussion with Lepore; later today, we{\textquoteright}ll post our talk with Kamensky.}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/02/the-exchange-ji.html}, author = {J Lepore} } @broadcast {9990, title = { In 1929, Parrot Fever Gripped The Country}, journal = {All Things Considered}, year = {2009}, note = {May 31 Website: transcript, audio}, publisher = {NPR}, abstract = {It was a classic medical scare story: Parrots died. A few people got sick. Newspapers went wild. Then, well after the outbreak of "parrot fever" was declared dormant, researchers who dealt with the birds began to mysteriously die themselves. Historian Jill Lepore talks to host Jacki Lyden about the great parrot fever outbreak of 1929. Lepore chronicles the episode in the June 1 issue of The New Yorker magazine.}, url = {http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104768337}, author = {J Lepore} } @article {9988, title = {The Public Historian: A conversation with Jill Lepore}, journal = {Humanities}, volume = {30}, number = {5}, year = {2009}, note = {September/October }, abstract = {Soon after earning her bachelor{\textquoteright}s degree in English from Tufts, Jill Lepore started working at Harvard, but not as a member of the faculty. The future David Woods Kemper {\textquoteright}41 Professor of American History was clocking hours as a secretary on temporary assignment. But she was also writing up a storm, auditing courses, and thinking about attending grad school. In a conversation that opens with high-school recollections before venturing into seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America, Lepore describes how she became the person she is today: a well-known scholar of early American history, a winner of the Bancroft Prize, a former NEH research fellow, and the author of numerous essays and several distinguished books. She is also a staff writer at the New Yorker and, with fellow historian Jane Kamensky, the coauthor of Blindspot, a work of historical fiction set in Revolution-era Boston.}, url = {http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2009-09/Interview.html}, author = {J Lepore} } @broadcast {9986, title = {The Cheshire home invasion crime: a historian{\textquoteright}s perspective}, journal = {All Things Considered}, year = {2009}, publisher = {WSHU}, abstract = {In a recent issue of The New Yorker magazine, Harvard historian Jill Lepore wrote about murder in America. Her article looks at recent and historical events in Connecticut to illustrate her points. All Things Considered host Mark Herz spoke with her about how the Cheshire home invasion crime and subsequent changes in punishment guidelines fits in historically. }, url = {http://wshu.org/news/story.php?ID=7307}, author = {J Lepore} } @webarticle {9965, title = {The Top Ten Books of 1709}, journal = {newyorker.com}, year = {2009}, month = {Dec. 7, 2009}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/12/the-top-ten-books-of-1709.html}, author = {J Lepore} } @webarticle {9961, title = {Screen Time}, journal = {newyorker.com}, year = {2009}, month = {Oct. 5, 2009}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2009/10/jill-lepore-gilbreth-video.html}, author = {J Lepore} } @webarticle {9959, title = {Abraham Lincoln{\textquoteright}s 100 Days}, journal = {newyorker.com}, year = {2009}, month = {April 29, 2009}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2009/04/jill-lepore-lincoln-one-hundred-days-emancipation-proclamation.html}, author = {J Lepore} } @webarticle {9957, title = {A Poe Coda}, journal = {newyorker.com}, year = {2009}, month = {April 24, 2009}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/04/a-poe-coda.html}, author = {J Lepore} } @webarticle {9953, title = {Poe, Decoded}, journal = {newyorker.com}, year = {2009}, month = {April 21, 2009}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/04/poe-decoded.html}, author = {J Lepore} } @webarticle {9950, title = {BLOG: Solve Edgar Allan Poe{\textquoteright}s Cryptogram}, journal = {www.newyorker.com}, year = {2009}, month = {April 20, 2009}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/04/solve-edgar-allan-poes-cryptogram.html}, author = {J Lepore} } @webarticle {9947, title = {Our Better History}, journal = {newyorker.com}, year = {2009}, month = {Jan. 20, 2009}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/tny/2009/01/our-better-history.html}, author = {J Lepore} } @newspaperarticle {9833, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Lost and Found{\textquotedblright}}, journal = {Times Literary Supplement}, year = {2009}, month = {11/27/2009}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9641, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Politics of Death: From abortion to health care{\textemdash}how the hysterical style overtook the national debate{\textquotedblright}}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2009}, note = {November 30, 2009}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/11/30/091130fa_fact_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @webarticle {9606, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Abraham Lincoln{\textquoteright}s 100 Days{\textquotedblright}}, journal = {newyorker.com}, year = {2009}, month = {04/29/2009}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2009/04/jill-lepore-lincoln-one-hundred-days-emancipation-proclamation.html}, author = {J Lepore} } @webarticle {9605, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Foul Play{\textquotedblright}}, journal = {newyorker.com}, year = {2009}, note = {November 2, 2009}, month = {11/2/2009}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/11/foul-play.html}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9604, title = {Pre{\"e}xisting Condition}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2009}, note = {December 7, 2009 }, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2009/12/07/091207taco_talk_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9642, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Rap Sheet: Why is American history so murderous?{\textquotedblright}}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2009}, note = {November 9, 2009. Reprinted in Connecticut Lawyer.}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/11/09/091109crat_atlarge_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9648, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Humbug: Edgar Allan Poe and the economy of horror{\textquotedblright}}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2009}, note = {April 27, 2009}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/04/27/090427crat_atlarge_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9654, title = {"Back Issues: The day the newspaper died"}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2009}, note = {January 26, 2009 Spanish translation printed in The End of Newspapers (Barcelona: Duomo Ediciones, 2010).}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/01/26/090126crat_atlarge_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9649, title = {{\textquotedblleft}I.O.U.: How we used to treat debtors{\textquotedblright}}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2009}, note = {April 13, 2009}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/04/13/090413fa_fact_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9655, title = {"Baby Food: If breast is best, why are women bottling their milk?"}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2009}, note = {January 19, 2009}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/19/090119fa_fact_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9646, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Baby Talk: The fuss about parenthood{\textquotedblright}}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2009}, note = {June 26, 2009}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/06/29/090629crbo_books_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9659, title = {"The Speech: Have Inaugural Addresses been getting worse?"}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2009}, note = {January 12, 2009}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/12/090112fa_fact_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9644, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Not So Fast: Scientific management started as a way to work. How did it become a way of life?{\textquotedblright}}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2009}, note = {October 12, 2009}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/10/12/091012crat_atlarge_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9647, title = {"It{\textquoteright}s Spreading: Outbreaks, media scares, and the parrot panic of 1930"}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2009}, note = {June 1, 2009 Reprinted in The McGraw-Hill Reader: Issues Across Disciplines, ed. Gilbert H. Muller (2010).}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {10081, title = {Blindspot: A Novel; A send-up of eighteenth-century literary forms }, journal = {Harvard Magazine}, year = {2008}, note = {November-December issue}, abstract = {Jill Lepore and Jane Kamensky, friends since graduate school, didn{\textquoteright}t plan to write a book. Their project, set in 1760s Boston, was supposed to be a sketch, a playful spoof of two genres: the picaresque, with its rogue hero exposing the hypocrisy around him, and the sentimental epistolary narrative{\textemdash}in this instance, a series of letters from a young {\textquotedblleft}fallen{\textquotedblright} woman to a friend. Lepore would write a chapter as Stewart Jameson, a portrait painter in exile; then Kamensky would pick up the story in a letter from Miss Fanny Easton. They planned to present the finished product as a gift to their mentor, John Demos, the historian under whom both studied at Yale.}, url = {http://harvardmagazine.com/2008/11/blindspot-a-novel.html}, author = {J Lepore} } @newspaperarticle {10078, title = {Boston When It Was British -- and Bawdy: Two friends in academe pen a historical novel; dating a check {\textquoteright}1708{\textquoteright}}, journal = {Wall Street Journal}, year = {2008}, month = {12/6/2008}, pages = {W3}, chapter = {Books}, abstract = {Historians, Ralph Ellison once said, are "responsible liars," but at least they{\textquoteright}re responsible. Historical novelists, on the other hand, don{\textquoteright}t let facts get in the way of a good story. But in "Blindspot," to be published next week, two academic historians and long-time friends, Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore, have painted a portrait of pre-Revolutionary Boston that is true to the spirit of the time while inventing a couple of romantic, witty, down-on-their-luck, larger-than-life characters struggling to stay afloat in a tumultuous time. Ms. Kamensky is the chairwoman of Brandeis University{\textquoteright}s history department; Ms. Lepore is chairwoman of the History and Literature Program at Harvard University and a contributor to the New Yorker magazine. Both have written several works of nonfiction; this is their first novel.}, url = {http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122852671659184691.html}, author = {J Lepore} } @newspaperarticle {10076, title = {A talk with Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore: Two noted history professors move from fact to fiction}, journal = {Boston Globe}, year = {2008}, month = {11/16/2008}, chapter = {Ideas}, abstract = {Lepore and Kamensky spoke with Ideas in a joint interview at the Hi-Rise bakery in Harvard Square.}, url = {http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/11/16/a_talk_with_jane_kamensky_and_jill_lepore/}, author = {J Lepore} } @book {9889, title = {Blindspot: A Novel by a Gentleman in Exile and a Lady in Disguise}, year = {2008}, note = {"It may justly be said in its Praise, without Flattery to the Authors, that it is the most Extraordinary Piece that ever was wrote in America."--Benjamin FRANKLIN, author of the classic Autobiography (1790) "Was there ever yet any thing written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and Blindspot?"--Samuel JOHNSON, compiler of the best-selling Dictionary (1755) "A Piece of this Kind is much wanted in the World, which is but too much, as well as too early, debauched by pernicious Novels."--Samuel RICHARDSON, author of the debauched novel Pamela (1740) "A good Book is a Lesson to all its Readers, and of far greater use to the Circle of its Acquaintance than a good Man. Such is this Ingenious and romantick Adventure."-- Henry FIELDING, author of the still more debauched parody Shamela (1741) "I will tell you in three words what the book is. {\textendash}It is a history.{\textemdash}A history!"--Laurence STERNE, acclaimed author of Tristram Shandy (1759), and no mathematician "A most inimitable Performance! Who is he, what is he, that could write so excellent a Book?"--John PUFF, the prolific author of very many eighteenth-century blurbs {\textquotedblleft}A beautifully crafted debut historical novel that is at once a tender love story, a murder mystery, and a brilliant sociological and political portrait of a turbulent time.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Library Journal (starred review and editor{\textquoteright}s pick) {\textquotedblleft}An erudite and entertaining recreation of colonial America on the brink of the Revolution.{\textquotedblright}--New York Times Book Review {\textquotedblleft}Both frisky and learned . . . a treat.{\textquotedblright}--Washington Post {\textquotedblleft}A lusty romance, a murder mystery, and a bit of Americana, all rolled into one big, fat historical romp. Lepore and Kamensky have recreated a fascinating world and brought history hotly alive.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}San Francisco Chronicle {\textquotedblleft}Not since John Barth published his classic riff on a genre forged by novelists such as Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson, The Sot-Weed Factor (1960), has anyone rendered colonial America in such exquisite satirical strokes..{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Chicago Tribune {\textquotedblleft}Thrilling, salty, swashbuckling . . ., this inspired page-turner will have readers pondering who will play the leads in the movie.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}The Star-Ledger Audio: Blackstone Audio, 2008; Large Print edition 2009. Book of the Month Club, History Book Club, Literary Guild, and Mystery Guild. }, publisher = {Spiegel \& Grau/Random House}, organization = {Spiegel \& Grau/Random House}, address = {New York}, abstract = {New York Times Book Review Editors{\textquoteright} Choice. Blindspot is a twenty-first century novel in eighteenth-century garb. It plays with the conventions of eighteenth-century novels, newspapers, portraits, and histories. Novels look for a different kind of truth than history books, and while Blindspot is fiction, it relies on our work as historians, on every page. Much that happens in the novel is based on actual events and adapted from archival evidence chronicling both ordinary life and extraordinary transformations. The American Revolution. The Enlightenment. The eighteenth century{\textquoteright}s bawdiness, its anticlericalism, its obsessions with wit and sham and rank and pleasure. A few of Blindspot{\textquoteright}s characters were inspired by real people; many of its buildings are based on buildings that still stand; its portraits resemble paintings that now hang on the walls of American museums. A sizable number of very short passages in the text are taken nearly verbatim from eighteenth-century letters, newspapers, account books, diaries, sermons, novels, poems, riddles, philosophical treatises, and legal records. We quoted, we borrowed, we took liberties. But we also kept faith with the past. --Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore }, url = {http://www.amazon.com/Blindspot-Novel-Random-Readers-Circle/dp/0385526202/ref=sr_1_1?s=books\&ie=UTF8\&qid=1304522341\&sr=1-1}, author = {J Lepore and J Kamensky} } @magazinearticle {9802, title = {"The Creed: What Poor Richard cost Benjamin Franklin"}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2008}, note = {January 28, 2008}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2008/01/28/080128crat_atlarge_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9798, title = {"Just the Facts, Ma{\textquoteright}am: Fake memoirs, factual fictions, and the history of history"}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2008}, note = {March 24, 2008}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2008/03/24/080324crat_atlarge_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9799, title = {"The Divider: In an HBO miniseries, John Adams is the indispensable man"}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2008}, note = {March 10, 2008}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2008/03/17/080317crte_television_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9662, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Rock, Paper, Scissors: How we used to vote{\textquotedblright}}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2008}, note = {October 13, 2008}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/13/081013fa_fact_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9667, title = {"Our Own Devices: Does technology drive history?"}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2008}, note = {May 12, 2008}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/05/12/080512crbo_books_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9660, title = {"Bound for Glory: Writing campaign lives"}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2008}, note = {October 20, 2008}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2008/10/20/081020crat_atlarge_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9664, title = {"President Tom{\textquoteright}s Cabin: Jefferson, Hemings, and a disclaimed lineage"}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2008}, note = {September 22, 2008}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/09/22/080922crbo_books_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9670, title = {"Prior Convictions: Did the Founders want us to be faithful to their faith?"}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2008}, note = {April 14, 2008}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2008/04/14/080414crat_atlarge_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9666, title = {"The Lion and the Mouse: The battle that reshaped children{\textquoteright}s literature"}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2008}, note = {July 21, 2008}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/21/080721fa_fact_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9812, title = {"The Meaning of Life: What Milton Bradley started"}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2007}, note = {May 21, 2007 Reprinted in The Week Magazine, July 2007.}, author = {J Lepore} } @inbook {9834, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Historian as Writer"}, booktitle = { Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writer{\textquoteright}s Guide}, year = {2007}, publisher = {Plume}, organization = {Plume}, address = {New York}, author = {J Lepore and M Kramer and W Call} } @magazinearticle {9806, title = {"Vast Designs: How America came of age"}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2007}, note = {October 29, 2007}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/10/29/071029crbo_books_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9815, title = {"Our Town: Four centuries on, the battles over John Smith and Jamestown still rage"}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2007}, note = {April 2, 2007}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9808, title = {"Party Time: Smear tactics, skulduggery, and the d{\'e}but of American democracy"}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2007}, note = {September 17, 2007}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/09/17/070917crbo_books_lepore}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9817, title = {"Noah{\textquoteright}s Mark"}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2006}, note = {November 6, 2006}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9824, title = {"Plymouth Rocked: Of Pilgrims, Puritans, and professors"}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2006}, note = {April 24, 2006}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/04/24/060424crat_atlarge}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9823, title = {"Goodbye, Columbus: When America won its independence, what became of the slaves who fled for theirs?"}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2006}, note = {May 26, 2006}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/05/08/060508crat_atlarge}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9820, title = {"The Sharpened Quill: Was Thomas Paine too much of a freethinker for the country he helped free?"}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2006}, note = {October 16, 2006}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/10/16/061016crbo_books}, author = {J Lepore} } @magazinearticle {9822, title = {"Westward, Ho! Revisiting Kit Carson{\textemdash}the man, the myth, and the dime-novel hero"}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2006}, note = {October 9, 2006.}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/10/09/061009crbo_books}, author = {J Lepore} } @inbook {9835, title = {"The Tightening Vise: Slavery and Freedom in British New York"}, booktitle = {Enslaved City: Slavery, Resistance and Abolition in New York City, 1623 to 1865}, year = {2005}, publisher = {The Free Press}, organization = {The Free Press}, address = {New York}, author = {J Lepore}, editor = {I Berlin and L Harris} } @inbook {9836, title = {"Writing for History"}, booktitle = {Why We Write}, year = {2005}, publisher = {Routledge}, organization = {Routledge}, address = {London}, author = {J Lepore and J Downs} } @magazinearticle {9825, title = {"People Power: Revisiting the origins of American democracy"}, journal = {The New Yorker}, year = {2005}, note = {October 24, 2005}, url = {http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/10/24/051024crbo_books}, author = {J Lepore} } @book {9875, title = {New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan}, year = {2005}, note = {Pulitzer Prize Finalist {\textquotedblleft}The most vivid and telling description of life and death in a colonial seaport yet produced by a historian. With a lacerating attention to detail, Lepore reveals the tragedies endured and inflicted in a colonial society that combined freedom and slavery in crowded towns of stark cruelty and vaunting ambitions.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}The New Republic {\textquotedblleft}A fascinating social and political history.{\textquotedblright}--The New York Times Book Review {\textquotedblleft}Vivid and provocative; [Lepore] evokes eighteenth-century New York in all its moral and physical messiness.{\textquotedblright}--The New Yorker {\textquotedblleft}A vivid and convincing account {\textellipsis}. A sober, meticulous book.{\textquotedblright}--The Washington Post Book World {\textquotedblleft}A historical study that is both intellectually rigorous and broadly accessible. {\textellipsis} The type of book that we need to read and historians need to write, more often.{\textquotedblright}--Newsday {\textquotedblleft}A reconstruction at once factually rigorous and brilliantly imaginative.{\textquotedblright}--The New York Sun {\textquotedblleft}Remarkable. {\textellipsis} Lepore mixes in legal, political, religious and literary information. {\textellipsis} A tour de force.{\textquotedblright}--The Winston-Salem Journal {\textquotedblleft}Riveting.{\textquotedblright}--Publishers Weekly (starred review) {\textquotedblleft}Lepore brings this terrifying period vividly to life. {\textellipsis} A gripping read.{\textquotedblright}--The Star-Ledger (Newark) {\textquotedblleft}A stellar performance.{\textquotedblright}--Booklist (starred review) Anisfield Wolf Award for Non-Fiction; Book of the Year, New York City Book Awards; ALA Notable Book; Book of the Month Club and the History Book Club. Audio: Highbridge Audio, 2005; Vintage, 2006.}, publisher = {Knopf}, organization = {Knopf}, address = {New York}, url = {http://www.amazon.com/New-York-Burning-Conspiracy-Eighteenth-Century/dp/1400032261/ref=pd_sim_b_2}, author = {J Lepore} } @article {9608, title = {Reckoning}, journal = {Common-place}, volume = {3}, number = {2}, year = {2003}, note = {January }, abstract = {"[I]f Joss Whedon, spy in the house of love, isn{\textquoteright}t willing or able to wrestle with the legacy of slavery, who is?" }, url = {http://www.common-place.org/vol-03/no-02/talk/}, author = {J Lepore} } @article {9607, title = {The Sea in Me Blood}, journal = {Common-place}, volume = {4}, number = {1}, year = {2003}, abstract = {"Why, bless me watery soul, are pirates now so silly that the word {\textquoteright}avast{\textquoteright} makes people sputter?" }, url = {http://www.common-place.org/vol-04/no-01/talk/}, author = {J Lepore} } @book {9876, title = {A is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States}, year = {2002}, note = {{\textquotedblleft}Remarkable. I read it at one sitting, mesmerized by the scholarship, the erudition and the elegant simplicity of this story of seven consummately noble American lives, each one of them, as Jill Lepore reveals, a pilgrimage in the grand search for a nation-creating linguistic ideal.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman {\textquotedblleft}[Lepore] is a terrific storyteller, alert to trenchant details but also able to convey the connections between events, the sweep of an epoch.{\textquotedblright}--The New York Times Book Review {\textquotedblleft}Wonderfully engrossing.{\textquotedblright} --The Boston Globe {\textquotedblleft}This is a book to ponder and re-leaf and return to.{\textquotedblright} --The Times Literary Supplement {\textquotedblleft}Eloquent. ... Smart and suggestive.{\textquotedblright}--The New Republic }, publisher = {Vintage}, organization = {Vintage}, address = {New York}, abstract = {What ties Americans to one another? What unifies a nation of citizens with different racial, religious and ethnic backgrounds? These were the dilemmas faced by Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as they sought ways to bind the newly United States together. In A is for American, award-winning historian Jill Lepore portrays seven men who turned to language to help shape a new nation{\textquoteright}s character and boundaries. From Noah Webster{\textquoteright}s attempts to standardize American spelling, to Alexander Graham Bell{\textquoteright}s use of {\textquotedblleft}Visible Speech{\textquotedblright} to help teach the deaf to talk, to Sequoyah{\textquoteright}s development of a Cherokee syllabary as a means of preserving his people{\textquoteright}s independence, these stories form a compelling portrait of a developing nation{\textquoteright}s struggles. Lepore brilliantly explores the personalities, work, and influence of these figures, seven men driven by radically different aims and temperaments. Through these superbly told stories, she chronicles the challenges faced by a young country trying to unify its diverse people. }, url = {http://www.amazon.com/American-Letters-Characters-United-States/dp/0375704086/ref=sr_1_1?s=books\&ie=UTF8\&qid=1304522609\&sr=1-1}, author = {J Lepore} } @inbook {9839, title = {"Literacy and Reading in Puritan New England"}, booktitle = {Perspectives on Book History: Artifacts and Commentary}, year = {2002}, publisher = {University of Massachusetts Press}, organization = {University of Massachusetts Press}, address = {Amherst}, author = {J Lepore}, editor = {S Casper and J Chaison and J Groves} } @article {9609, title = {Plagiarize This}, journal = {Common-place,}, volume = {2}, number = {3}, year = {2002}, note = {April }, abstract = {"[W]hile the New York Times and the Boston Globe are gleefully covering Historygate, is anyone, besides the Weekly World News, talking about history?" }, url = {http://www.common-place.org/vol-02/no-03/talk/}, author = {J Lepore} } @article {9843, title = {"Wigwam Words"}, journal = {The American Scholar}, volume = {70}, year = {2001}, note = {Winter}, pages = {97-108}, author = {J Lepore} } @article {9841, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Historians Who Love Too Much: Reflections on Microhistory and Biography{\textquotedblright}}, journal = {Journal of American History}, volume = {88}, year = {2001}, note = {June}, pages = {129-144}, url = {http://www.jstor.org/pss/2674921}, author = {J Lepore} } @article {9611, title = {Go West, Sensitive New Age Guy}, journal = {Common-place}, volume = {1}, number = {3}, year = {2001}, note = {April }, abstract = {"A mere four hundred British families applied to live for three months in London{\textquoteright}s retrofitted 1900 House, but nearly ten times as many Americans are seeking to live for twice as long in the far more physically grueling Frontier House." }, url = {http://www.common-place.org/vol-01/no-03/talk/}, author = {J Lepore} } @article {9610, title = {No More Kings}, journal = {Common-place}, volume = {2}, number = {1}, year = {2001}, note = {October }, abstract = {"Stanford historian Jack Rakove, who serves as consultant, confesses, {\textquoteright}If you ask from a historian{\textquoteright}s vantage point, how does this correspond to contemporary scholarship? Well, probably, not that well. But if you ask, what is it that students of this age ought to be introduced to so that they have a rough idea of the Revolution, it{\textquoteright}s actually pretty good.{\textquoteright}" }, url = {http://www.common-place.org/vol-02/no-01/talk/}, author = {J Lepore} } @book {9886, title = {Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents}, year = {2000}, note = {Paperback, 2002.}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {A collection of primary sources documenting the early clash of cultures in the Americas, Encounters in the New World spans the years from Columbus{\textquoteright}s voyage in 1492 to the publication of the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, a former slave, in 1789. Emotional eyewitness accounts--memoirs, petitions, diaries, captivity narratives, private correspondence--as well as formal documents, official reports, and journalistic reportage give body and texture to the historical events described. A special 16-page color cartographic section, including maps from both Europe and North America, is fascinating not only for the maps{\textquoteright} telltale imperfections, but also because they convey information about how their creators saw themselves and the world around them. A Jesuit priest{\textquoteright}s chronicle of life among his Iroquois captors, Aztec records of forbidding omens, excerpts from Columbus{\textquoteright}s ship{\textquoteright}s log, John Smith{\textquoteright}s account of cannibalism among the British residents of Jamestown, slave auction advertisements, memoirs by several members of Cortes{\textquoteright}s expedition, the reminiscences of an escaped slave-these are just a few examples of the wealth of primary sources collected here. Jill Lepore, winner of the distinguished Bancroft Prize for history in 1999, provides informed, expert commentary linking the documents into a fascinating and seamless narrative. Textbooks may interpret history, but the books in the Pages from History series are history. Each title, compiled and edited by a prominent historian, is a collection of primary sources relating to a particular topic of historical significance. Documentary evidence including news articles, government documents, memoirs, letters, diaries, fiction, photographs, and facsimiles allows history to speak for itself and turns every reader into a historian. Headnotes, extended captions, sidebars, and introductory essays provide the essential context that frames the documents. All the books are amply illustrated and each spans the years froincludes a documentary picture essay, chronology, further reading, source notes, and index.}, url = {http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryAmerican/ColonialRevolutionary/?view=usa\&ci=9780195105131}, author = {J Lepore} } @article {9627, title = {Playing Dress Up}, journal = {Common-place}, volume = {1}, number = {1}, year = {2000}, note = {September }, abstract = {"Aging hats and casting brass button moulds is all well and good, and probably Oscar worthy, but what{\textquoteright}s the point if no one bothers to research speechways or family life or race relations or colonial politics?" }, url = {http://www.common-place.org/vol-01/no-01/talk/}, author = {J Lepore} } @book {9877, title = {The Name of War: King Philip{\textquoteright}s War and the Origins of American Identity}, year = {1998}, note = {Winner of the Bancroft Prize, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize and the Berkshire Prize, the New England Historical Association Book Prize and a finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize. {\textquotedblleft}Lepore displays remarkable gifts as a storyteller. ... She possesses the special gift of our most enduring historians: a flair for finding strange and ironic episodes whose details reveal the past{\textquoteright}s most fundamental and painful contradictions. ... An evocative, powerful, and troubling book about a little-known war that speaks to all wars.{\textquotedblright}--The New Republic {\textquotedblleft}Fascinating ... rich in imagination, in moral ruminations about the meaning and justice of war.{\textquotedblright}--The New York Review of Books {\textquotedblleft}Lepore captures the experience of the war, for whites and Indians alike, in prose that is worthy of the tormented writing that emerged from the Civil War, World War I and Vietnam.{\textquotedblright}--The New York Times Book Review {\textquotedblleft}Brilliant. ... Lepore{\textquoteright}s grasp of the complexities and varieties of the human beings in her drama matches that of a fine novelist. ... This is history as it should be written. ... The delights of Jill Lepore{\textquoteright}s prose are enough by themselves to make this a book for anyone who loves good writing.{\textquotedblright}--The Boston Globe }, publisher = {Vintage}, organization = {Vintage}, address = {New York}, abstract = {King Philip{\textquoteright}s War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres and outrages on both sides were too horrific to "deserve the name of a war." Telling the story of what may have been the bitterest of American conflicts, and its reverberations over the centuries, Lepore has enabled us to see how the ways in which we remember past events are as important in their effect on our history as were the events themselves. }, url = {http://www.amazon.com/Name-War-Philips-American-Identity/dp/0375702628/ref=sr_1_1?s=books\&ie=UTF8\&qid=1304522811\&sr=1-1}, author = {J Lepore} } @inbook {9845, title = {"Remembering American Frontiers: King Philip{\textquoteright}s War and the American Imagination"}, booktitle = {Contact Points: North American Frontiers, 1750-1830}, year = {1998}, publisher = {Chapel Hill}, organization = {Chapel Hill}, address = {University of North Carolina Press}, author = {J Lepore}, editor = {F Teute and A Cayton} } @article {9846, title = {"Dead Men Tell No Tales: John Sassamon and the Fatal Consequences of Literacy"}, journal = {American Quarterly}, volume = {46}, year = {1994}, note = {December}, pages = {479-512}, author = {J Lepore} } @webarticle {145201, title = {Hello Dolly: On Likeness}, journal = {newyorker.com}, number = {February 6, 2014}, year = {204}, url = { http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2014/02/hello-dolly-on-likeness-jane-and-ben-franklin.html}, author = {Lepore, Jill} }