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Jill Lepore
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Jill Lepore

historian, journalist, writer, essayist, academic, university teacher

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1966

Jill Lepore is an American historian and journalist. 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.

All Quotes by Jill Lepore

“The great glory of American democracy is the right to protest for right,” as Martin Luther King Jr. once said. The nation is often wrong. But so long as protest is possible, it can always be righted.”
— Jill Lepore
“Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine.”
— Jill Lepore
“The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.”
— Jill Lepore