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Jill Lepore is a professor of American history at Harvard University and chair of Harvard's History and Literature Program. She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker, and her essays and reviews have also appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The American Scholar, and in scholarly journals including the Journal of American History, The American Historical Review, and American Quarterly.
Lepore's book New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan (Knopf, 2005) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History.
Lepore earned a B.A. in English at Tufts University in 1987, an M.A. in history at University of Michigan in 1990, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1995, where she specialized in the history of early America.
Lepore taught at the University of California-San Diego and at Boston University before starting at Harvard. In addition to her books of history, in 2008 Lepore published a novel with co-author...... (Read more on Wikipedia)
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DAILY COMMENT - [Update: On Friday, Susan G. Komen ... - — [Update: On Friday, Susan G. Komen for the Cure announced that it was reversing its decision to break with Planned Parenthood.] — In 1731, Benjamin Franklin's nineteen-year-old sister, Jane, wrote to her brother that their sister Mary, a mother of three, was dying of breast cancer. |
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