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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Within the origin of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes hides a fascinating family story—and a crucial history of ...
The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
National Book Award Finalist From one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians, a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin’s youngest ...
"Jill Lepore is unquestionably one of America’s best historians; it’s fair to say she’s one of its best writers too." —Jonathan Russell Clark,...
King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
BANCROFF PRIZE WINNER • King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war—colonists against Indigenous peoples—that erupted in New England in 1675,...
“Nothing short of a masterpiece.” —NPR Books A New York Times Bestseller and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year In the most ambitious on...
A History of Life and Death
Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has composed a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted hi...
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. ...
Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner In New York Burning, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore recounts these dramatic even...
The Case for the Nation
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 ...
Essays on Origins
Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories -- from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamesto...
How One Data Company Invented the Future
Radio 4's Book of the Week A Financial Times Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times / McKinsey Business Book of the Year Longlisted...
From New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book eve...
The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History
From acclaimed bestselling historian Jill Lepore, the story of the American historical mythology embraced by the far right Americans have always put t...
A History in Documents
A collection of documents illustrating encounters between Native American peoples and a variety of European newcomers from the fifteenth to the eighte...
A History of the United States, with Sources
The United States was founded on a set of "self-evident" truths: political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. But how well h...
How Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
The Simulmatics Corporation, launched during the Cold War, mined data, targeted voters, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered k...
A book of nationwide appeal to the women of America. It answers the questions of millions of women: What does Mrs. Roosevelt think about the income pr...
On January 6, 2021, more than two thousand rioters stormed the doors of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., hoping to interrupt the peacefu...
Essays, 2012-2022
'A stunning mosaic of contemporary America' Fintan O'Toole 'Essential reading, with quick insights and bomblets of surprise' TLS A panoptical vision o...
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Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States