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Jill Lepore (born August 27, 1966) is an American historian and journalist. She is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she has contributed since 2005. She writes about American history, law, literature, and politics.
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βThe work of the historian is not the work of the critic or of the moralist,β. βIt is the work of the sleuth and the storyteller, the philosopher and the scientist, the keeper of tales, the sayer of sooth, the teller of truth.β
βMany of the essays engage with the question of written constitutionalism in the United States, meaning, in a specific legal way, that we are ruled by the dead. But a lot of the essays also engage broadly in questions about how memory and devotion and obligation to the dead inform decisions that we make. I donβt think itβs an unshakable hold. And sometimes, as in the title essay (from 2019), that hold is an embrace.β
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Jill Lepore on Feminism
βWho needs consciousness-raising and equal pay, when youβre an Amazon with an invisible plane?β
Jill Lepore on Past
βThereβs a resistance to the idea that things can be learned from the past, but the past is a kind of closet full of human beings who have lots to say; the door should be opened once in a while.β
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Jill Lepore on Wonder Woman 5 quotes
βWho needs consciousness-raising and equal pay, when youβre an Amazon with an invisible plane?β
Jill Lepore on William Moulton Marston
βSound and talking undoubtedly increase the entertainment value of a picture. There is a distinct conflict, however, between a pictorial and sound elements, which cannot be entirely avoided until third dimensional pictures are made.β
Jill Lepore on Women
βItβs no accident that #Metoo started in the entertainment and television-news businesses, where women are required to look as much like Barbie and Bratz dolls as possible, with the help of personal trainers, makeup artists, hair stylists, personal shoppers, and surgeons.β
About Jill Lepore
Jill Lepore (born August 27, 1966) is an American historian and journalist. She is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she has contributed since 2005. She writes about American history, law, literature, and politics.