Publications

2011
Lepore, J. 2011. “Past and Present With Jill Lepore: The 1765 Death of Newspapers.” The Brian Lehrer Show. WNYC. Audio
Lepore, J. 2011. “"Our Second Gilded Age".” Room for Debate, nytimes.com. Publisher's Version
Lepore, J. 2011. “"A Good Bad Guy".” Room for Debate, nytimes.com. Publisher's Version
Lepore, J. 2011. ““A World of Paine”.” Revolutionary Founders, edited by G Nash, A Young, and R Raphael. New York: Knopf.
Lepore, J. 2011. “How Longfellow Woke the Dead.” The American Scholar 81: 2-15. Article
Lepore, J. 2011. “The Commandments: the Constitution and its worshippers.” The New Yorker. Article
Bibliography
Lepore, J. 2011. “Twilight: Growing old and even older.” The New Yorker, March 14, 2011. Article
Bibliography
Lepore, J. 2011. “Poor Jane’s Almanac.” New York Times, sec. Opinion. Publisher's Version
2010
Lepore, J. 2010. “Jill Lepore: Tea Party Time… and the Death of Compassion.” Radio Open Source. Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University. Publisher's Version
Lepore, J. 2010. “The Tea Party, A Modern Movement.” Talk of the Nation. NPR. Publisher's Version 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.
Lepore, J. 2010. “Interview.” The Callie Crossley Show. WGBH.
Lepore, J. 2010. “The Battle Over American History.” RadioWest: Inside NewsRoom. KUER. Publisher's Version Abstract
There's a lot of talk these days about the ideals of the American Revolution, but historian Jill Lepore says the Tea Party isn'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.
Lepore, J. 2010. “Tea Party discussion.” Americana. BBC. Publisher's Version Abstract
As members of the Tea Party movement campaign enthusiastically ahead of this year'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.
The rhetoric of the Tea Party is peppered with references to the American Revolution. And the eponymous event — the one that took place in 1773, when the Sons of Liberty emptied hundreds of crates of British Tea into the Boston Harbor — 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 “The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle over American History,” historian and writer Jill Lepore says the 1773 Tea Party has been a political device for many groups over the years.
Lepore, J. 2010. “Fact-Checking the Tea Party.” The Conversation. KUOW. Publisher's Version 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's Revolution and the Battle over American History."

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