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Jill Lepore

Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and professor of law at Harvard Law School. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her many books include the international bestseller These Truths: A History of the United States. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Jill Lepore

Awards

Winner — Arthur Ross Book Award, 2019

Shortlisted — Cundill History Prize, 2019

Winner — Massachusetts Book Award, 2019

Commended — New York Times Notable Selection, 2018

Books by Jill Lepore

These Truths: A History of the United States
Jill Lepore
Hardback, 2018
In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation.
This America: The Case for the Nation
Jill Lepore
Hardback, 2019
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection
One of President Bill Clinton’s “Best Things I’ve Read This Year”
From the acclaimed historian and New Yorker writer comes this urgent...
These Truths: A History of the United States
Jill Lepore
Paperback, 2019
In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation.
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
Jill Lepore
Hardback, 2020
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
Jill Lepore
Paperback, 2021
From the best-selling author of These Truths, an “exhilarating” (New York Times Book Review) account of the Cold War origins of our data-mad era.
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
Jill Lepore
E Book, 2020
From the best-selling author of These Truths, an “exhilarating” (New York Times Book Review) account of the Cold War origins of our data-mad era.
This America: The Case for the Nation
Jill Lepore
E Book, 2019
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection
One of President Bill Clinton’s “Best Things I’ve Read This Year”
From the acclaimed historian and New Yorker writer comes this urgent...
These Truths: A History of the United States
Jill Lepore
E Book, 2018
In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation.
These Truths: A History of the United States
Jill Lepore
Inquiry Edition, Combined Volume, Paperback, 2023
Show your students the urgency of studying history
These Truths: A History of the United States, with Sources
Jill Lepore
Inquiry Edition, Combined Volume, Paperback, 2023
Show your students the urgency of studying history