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Jill Lepore

“Trump should be thrown off the ballot.” Historians convince E.J. Dionne

John Fea   |  February 5, 2024

When the Colorado–14th Amendment ballot case broke, Washington Post columnist and public intellectual E.J. Dionne was skeptical. He was among those who thought that Trump should stay on the ballot in Colorado and let the people decide whether he should […]

Jill Lepore on “the hold of the dead over the living”

John Fea   |  January 3, 2024

Over at the Los Angeles Review of Books, historian Jill Lepore discusses her recent collection of essays, The Deadline, with the magazine’s law editor, Julien Crockett. Here is a taste of the interview: JULIEN CROCKETT: In the introduction to your […]

Episode 120: “Popular Historians in Post-War America”

John Fea   |  October 16, 2023

Should professional historians write for the general public? If so, who is the “public” they are trying to reach? And when historians do write for the public how do they manage to make their work readable and accessible without sacrificing […]

Jill Lepore on the state of “society”

John Fea   |  November 30, 2021

Here is a taste of the Harvard historian’s recent piece at The Guardian: In March 2020, Boris Johnson, pale and exhausted, self-isolating in his flat on Downing Street, released a video of himself – that he had taken himself – […]