Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History, Harvard College Professor, and Professor of Law, Harvard Law
Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History, Harvard College Professor, and Professor of Law, Harvard Law
Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History, Harvard College Professor, and Professor of Law, Harvard Law
Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History, Harvard College Professor, and Professor of Law, Harvard Law

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Footnotes to Fiction: Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore
Web Article
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...

The Tea Party and The Battle Over American History
Broadcast
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...

Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents
Book
A collection of primary sources documenting the early clash of cultures in the Americas, Encounters in the New World spans the years from Columbus's voyage in 1492 to the publication of the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, a former slave, in 1789...

Blindspot: A Novel; A send-up of eighteenth-century literary forms

Magazine Article
Jill Lepore and Jane Kamensky, friends since graduate school, didn’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...

Screen Time

News
I’ve got a piece in this week’s magazine about scientific management, and the work of the industrial engineers Frederick Winslow Taylor and Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, who wanted to systematize work, but in different ways. Taylor wanted workers to put a...