The historian and Harvard professor reflects on the Republican’s second term: ‘His hold on power is extraordinarily tenuous. And when he falls, he will crash’ ...

In preparation for the U.S. Semiquincentennial this summer, we’re featuring two key texts in American history. First, Professor Nora Slonimsky joins NPR’s Sarah McCammon to discuss the legacy and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jill Lepore's history of the Constitution includes a colorful cast of characters and makes a case for it as a living document that ...

Jill Lepore knows her stuff. She’s a staff writer at The New Yorker, a professor at Harvard, and the author of a new book, We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution, that examines the ...

In 1984, moviegoers worldwide packed theaters to see “The Terminator,” the classic sci-fi action flick in which Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a relentless and deadly robot from a future where machines ...

Jill Lepore is unquestionably one of America’s best historians; it’s fair to say she’s one of its best writers too. Her books on subjects ranging from King Philip’s War and Jane Franklin to Wonder ...

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times. In “We the People,” the Harvard historian worries that the glacial amendment process is leading the country to crisis. By Aziz Z ...

Jill Lepore teaches history at Harvard and writes about history for the New Yorker. But she's equally interested in the present: "We have an obligation to try to make sense of the relationship between ...