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Jill Lepore
Jill Lepore, a staff writer, has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2005. Her books include “The Name of War,” which won a Bancroft Prize; “New York Burning,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for history; “Book of Ages,” a finalist for the National Book Award; “The Secret History of Wonder Woman”; and the international best-seller “These Truths: A History of the United States.” She is the host of the podcast “The Last Archive” and of the BBC Radio 4 program “Elon Musk: The Evening Rocket.” Her latest book is “The Deadline: Essays.”
Lepore received her Ph.D. in American studies from Yale in 1995, and is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University.
All Work
- Dept. of Heirlooms
The Rescued Portrait of My Italian Grandmother
How a matriarch’s image was lost and found.
July 12, 2022
- Daily Comment
The Supreme Court’s Selective Memory
The Court’s originalist justification for striking down a New York gun law is more than capricious—it relies on a fundamentally anti-democratic historical record that deliberately excludes women and people of color.
June 24, 2022
- Books
Bicycles Have Evolved. Have We?
From the velocipede to the ten-speed, biking innovations brought riders freedom. But in a world built for cars, life behind handlebars is both charmed and dangerous.
May 23, 2022
- Comment
After the Failed Senate Bill on Abortion
If the Democratic response to Justice Alito’s draft opinion was largely rhetorical, was it also a missed opportunity?
May 15, 2022
- Daily Comment
Of Course the Constitution Has Nothing to Say About Abortion
There is no mention of the procedure in a four-thousand-word document crafted by fifty-five men in 1787. This seems to be a surprise to Samuel Alito.
May 4, 2022
- American Chronicles
Why the School Wars Still Rage
From evolution to anti-racism, parents and progressives have clashed for a century over who gets to tell our origin stories.
March 14, 2022
- Comment
The Lessons of “The Lorax”
The battle over what we read isn’t about to end anytime soon.
November 28, 2021
- Books
How the Week Organizes and Tyrannizes Our Lives
From work schedules to TV seasons to baseball games, the seven-day cycle has long ordered American society. Will we ever get rid of it?
November 15, 2021
- American Chronicles
When Black History Is Unearthed, Who Gets to Speak for the Dead?
Efforts to rescue African American burial grounds and remains have exposed deep conflicts over inheritance and representation.
September 27, 2021
- A Critic at Large
Facebook’s Broken Vows
How the company’s pledge to bring the world together wound up pulling us apart.
July 26, 2021
