We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution" (to be published Sept. 16 by Liveright), Harvard professor and ...
Pianist Lara Downes (left) and historian Jill Lepore convene to discuss what America was like just before the founding of the United States. (Peter Doran) In this 250th anniversary year of the United ...
Writing about American history in its present state of political division is a daunting yet immensely important task, said Jill Lepore, a professor of American history at Harvard and a staff writer at ...