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A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What has made the Constitution durable is the same as what makes it demanding: the fact that so much was left out.

Jill Lepore

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.

Jill Lepore

Jane Francklyne, born in 1565, had lived for less than a month. She left very little behind. She was buried in the Ecton churchyard, but her father would hardly have paid a carver to engrave so small a stone. If not for the parish register, there would be no record that this Jane Francklyne had ever lived at all. History is what is written and can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by the earth.

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We have hands that must work, brains that must think, and personalities that must be developed.

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You can be strong as any boy if you'll work hard and train yourself in athletics, the way boys do.

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Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.

Jill Lepore

Jill Lepore

Jill Lepore

Born: August 27, 1966 (age 58)

Bio: Jill Lepore is 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.

Known for:

The Secret History of Wonder Woman (2014)
The Name of War (1998)
New York Burning (2005)
The Whites of Their Eyes (2010)

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