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Jill Lepore

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Jill Lepore

Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a regular contributor to The New Yorker. Her books include A Is for American and Blindspot, a novel written jointly with Jane Kamensky.

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Harvard University Gazette, May 3, 2012
...and Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Daniel Kahne , David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History Jill Lepore , and Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science David Parkes , were named to the prestigious...
London Free Press, February 24, 2012
...re stuck or searching for a word or phrase. As for historians, I'm a great admirer of Jill Lepore, who writes essays for the New Yorker in addition to her many books. I also like Adam Hochschild, a non-academic who writes history with great clarity and...
Sun-Journal, February 5, 2012
...Alexis DeRoches of Industry, whom Morse found while reading the New Yorker Magazine. DeRoches was interviewed by writer Jill Lepore last year, while she attended an event known as Dickens Universe. Every year, hundreds of Dickens fans from around the...
Moneycontrol.com, December 24, 2011
...re stuck or searching for a word or phrase. "As for historians, I'm a great admirer of Jill Lepore, who writes essays for the New Yorker in addition to her many books. I also like Adam Hochschild, a non-academic who writes history with great clarity and...
Yahoo! News, December 22, 2011
...re stuck or searching for a word or phrase. "As for historians, I'm a great admirer of Jill Lepore, who writes essays for the New Yorker in addition to her many books. I also like Adam Hochschild, a non-academic who writes history with great clarity and...
Yahoo!Xtra, December 22, 2011
...re stuck or searching for a word or phrase. "As for historians, I'm a great admirer of Jill Lepore, who writes essays for the New Yorker in addition to her many books. I also like Adam Hochschild, a non-academic who writes history with great clarity and...
Yahoo!Xtra, December 22, 2011
...re stuck or searching for a word or phrase. "As for historians, I'm a great admirer of Jill Lepore, who writes essays for the New Yorker in addition to her many books. I also like Adam Hochschild, a non-academic who writes history with great clarity and...
Inside Higher Ed, February 29, 2012
...on the movement of constitutional-law scholars such as Foley is minute compared to that of the fantasies that Jill Lepore discusses in her recent book The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle Over American History (Princeton...
Inside Higher Ed, February 29, 2012
...on the movement of constitutional-law scholars such as Foley is minute compared to that of the fantasies that Jill Lepore discusses in her recent book The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle Over American History (Princeton...
London Free Press, February 24, 2012
...re stuck or searching for a word or phrase. As for historians, I'm a great admirer of Jill Lepore, who writes essays for the New Yorker in addition to her many books. I also like Adam Hochschild, a non-academic who writes history with great clarity and...
LivDigital, February 23, 2012
...speakers at the event included  Doug Melton , Eleanor Duckworth , Nicholas Christakis , Kaia Stern , Donhee Ham, Stephen Greenblatt, and Jill Lepore. The lectures can be watched via YouTube (follow the previous links) or via iTunes . Regrettably the...
New Matilda, February 21, 2012
...galvanised the pro-life movement with the support of Catholic bishops and the Republican presidential candidates. This article by Jill Lepore about the campaign on Planned Parenthood health centres published in the New Yorker last year provides an...
University of Massachusetts Boston, February 10, 2012
...recognized scholars of history, philosophy, comparative religion, political science, law and culture – including Diana Eck, Randall Kennedy, Jill Lepore, and Austin Sarat among others - will discuss the role civility plays in American politics....
Harvard University Gazette, February 10, 2012
...and changed thinking about life and death with each play performance. History professor and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore described how the goals of life changed in iterations of the board game of “Life” from the time that Harvard dropout...