Solomont Speaker Series: Jill Lepore

Join a conversation with renowned professor, bestselling author, and historian, Jill Lepore, J87, on her 2025 book, . Published on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of America’s founding, We the People shares the messy history of the U.S. Constitution while also seeking to rekindle a sense of constitutional possibility

Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she teaches classes in evidence, historical methods, humanistic inquiry, and American history. Much of her scholarship explores absences and asymmetries in the historical record, with a particular emphasis on the history and technology of evidence. Lepore is also a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she writes about American history, law, literature and politics, and she is the founder and director of Amend, an NEH-funded data collection of attempts to amend the U.S. Constitution.

Lepore is the recipient of many honors and awards, including honorary degrees from Yale, NYU, and Tufts. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award; the National Magazine Award; and, twice, for the Pulitzer Prize; winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award, for the best non-fiction book on race; and winner of the PEN Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Learn more about Jill Lepore.

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