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Jill Lepore
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Is a Chat with a Bot a Conversation?
September 30, 2024
An article by Jill Lepore: In 1958, the year the illustrated children’s book “What Do You Say, Dear?” appeared, the leaders of a field newly…
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Political Conventions: At This Point, What’s The Point?
August 22, 2024
The Democratic National Convention is in full swing, but what influence does it have on the election? Once a hotbed of debate, drama, and actual…
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70 Years of Brown v. Board of Education
May 17, 2024
Jill Lepore returns to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education with a special episode of The Last Archive.
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As the Supreme Court weighs whether Donald Trump is eligible to again serve as president, the justices will confront a politically fraught and fractious question:…
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Colorado removed Trump from the ballot, and the Supreme Court will soon hear the case. Historians Jill Lepore and David Blight, who support Colorado’s decision,…
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If It Walks Like an Insurrection and Talks Like an Insurrection …
January 31, 2024
While we await oral argument in Trump v. Anderson — the U.S. Supreme Court case that will evaluate the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to exclude…
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The Architect of Our Divided Supreme Court
January 23, 2024
An article by Jill Lepore: “Mrs. Justice Holmes died on Tuesday night,” the Supreme Court’s Chief Justice, William Howard Taft, reported on May 5, 1929.
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Civil War Confederate President Wasn’t Tried, Why It Matters In Trump Case | Amanpour and Company
December 7, 2023
Donald Trump made history as the first U.S. president to be criminally indicted. But he is not the first ex-president to undergo prosecution. In her…
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An article by Jill Lepore: Jefferson Davis, the half-blind ex-President of the Confederate States of America, leaned on a cane as he hobbled into a…
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American democracy is cracking. These forces help explain why.
November 20, 2023
In a country where the search for common ground is increasingly elusive, many Americans can agree on this: They believe the political system is broken…
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Journalist Jill Lepore compiles new book of essays, “The Deadline”
October 31, 2023
Our guest Jill Lepore is a writer with an amazing gift for drawing connections between the historical and the contemporary. She connects dots like no…
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Scholars probe urgent issues facing Harvard and the world
October 2, 2023
Panels examine challenges ahead: riven democracies, biomedical advances, raging inequity, climate change, harnessing AI, role of academy
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The World According to Elon Musk’s Grandfather
September 20, 2023
An article by Jill Lepore: This month, Elon Musk threatened to sue the Anti-Defamation League, alleging that its denunciation of X—the A.D.L. had accused the…
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How Elon Musk Went from Superhero to Supervillain
September 11, 2023
An article by Jill Lepore: In 2021, Elon Musk became the world’s richest man (no woman came close), and Time named him Person of the…
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Jill Lepore, award-winning American historian and New Yorker writer, joins Harvard Law faculty
August 31, 2023
Jill Lepore, award-winning American historian and writer, will join the Harvard Law School faculty as a professor of law.
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Jill Lepore has seen the inside of time
August 30, 2023
The concept of a deadline is a complicated one for Jill Lepore. In addition to the obvious meaning — her new book, “The Deadline,” is…
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Jill Lepore Revisits American Myths With an Eye to the Present
August 28, 2023
In 1636, at the height of the Dutch economic hysteria known as Tulipomania, John Harvard helped found the first college of the American colonies. I…
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How to Stave Off Constitutional Extinction
July 5, 2023
An op-ed by Jill Lepore: Every Fourth of July, Americans celebrate independence, but it might be more significant, more pregnant with meaning, to celebrate amendment…