Jill Lepore
Jill Lepore
Jill Leporeis an American historian. 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
CountryUnited States of America
hall room school wax
When I was a kid, my father would go to our school in the summer to sweep, mop, and wax the floors, room by room, hall by hall, week after week.
employees moved offices periods throughout
Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.
presidents
Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.
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Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.