Jill Lepore

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Jill Lepore (2020)

Jill Lepore [ ləˈpɔːɹ ] (born August 27, 1966 in West Boylston , Worcester County , Massachusetts ) is an American historian , essayist and professor at Harvard University . It deals with American history.

Life

Lepore's father was the principal of a high school, and his mother taught art at the same school after working as a designer and stewardess. Lepore grew up in West Boylston and studied mathematics and then English at Tufts University with a bachelor's degree. She then served as a secretary at Harvard Business School before studying American cultural history at the University of Michigan with a master's degree in 1990 and 1995 from Yale University in American history. In 1995/96 she taught at the University of California, San Diego , then at Boston University and from 2003 at Harvard. she isDavid Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard and Harvard College Professor since 2012 in recognition of her teaching for lower semesters.

Lepore was President of the Society of American Historians and Commissioner of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington.

Awards (selection)

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In These Truths. A History of the United States (2018) she takes the view that the contradictions on which the United States was founded - on the one hand the realization of the civil liberties of the Enlightenment period and on the other hand slavery even among the signatories of the American Declaration of Independence and the Constitution - are an inseparable part of American history will stay. The book was a bestseller in the United States. Michael Hochgeschwender judged the book: "Jill Lepore has written a great history of the USA from 1865 to the present, whose prehistory is distorted rather than clarified by her ideological premises." She refuses to historicize the central concepts of freedom and equality and leads "Under the hand [...] a transhistorical, timeless, content-indefinite, essentialist concept of freedom and equality". Martin Doerry criticized Lepore for showing no interest in the American Civil War in her book and not even mentioning William T. Sherman, for example . Lepore's book is "the best readable history of the United States in one volume," said Claus Leggewie .

In addition to history books, she also published a historical novel in 2008 ( Blindspot , with Jane Kamensky ). Together with the history professor Kamensky, she also founded the historical online magazine Common-place . She also advised on history projects and wrote articles for the radio (e.g. The Search for Big Brown 2015 in The New Yorker Radio hour).

She has been writing on the New Yorker's editorial board since 2005 on American history, legal issues, literature, and politics. She has also published in the New York Times , the Times Literary Supplement , Foreign Affairs , Yale Law Journal , American Scholar , Journal of American History, and American Quarterly, among others . The books The mansion of happiness (in the final selection for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction ), The story of America , The whites of their eyes emerged from her essays at the New Yorker . In 2015 she received the American History Book Prize for The secret history of wonder women . She won the 1999 Bancroft Prize for The Name of War , The story of America was in the finals of the PEN Literary Award for the Art of the Essay, Book of Ages was in the finals of the National Book Award for nonfiction, and New York Burning was in 2006 in the final round of the Pulitzer Prize for History. In 2014 she became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2019 she was in the final round of the Pulitzer Prize for Critics.

Private

Lepore is married and has three sons. She is a fan of the Boston Red Sox .

Books

  • The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity , Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1998, ISBN 9780679446866 .
  • Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents , Oxford University Press, New York 2000, ISBN 9780195105131 .
  • A is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States . Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2002, ISBN 9780375404498 .
  • New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-century Manhattan , Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2005, ISBN 9781400040292 .
  • The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle Over American History , Princeton University Press, Princeton 2010, ISBN 9780691150277 .
  • The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death , New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. ISBN 9780307592996 .
  • The Story of America: Essays on Origins , Princeton University Press, 2012. ISBN 9780691153995 .
  • Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin , Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2013, ISBN 9780307958341 . (about the youngest sister of Benjamin Franklin , who also dealt intensively with literature and politics and was gifted as a writer, but mainly acted as the mother of twelve children)
  • The Secret History of Wonder Woman , Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2014, ISBN 9780385354042 .
  • Joe Gould's Teeth , Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2016, ISBN 9781101947586 .
  • These Truths: A History of the United States , WW Norton & Company, New York 2018, ISBN 9780393635249 .
    • German translation: These truths. History of the United States of America , CH Beck, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-73988-0 .
  • This America: The Case for the Nation , WW Norton & Company, New York 2019, ISBN 9781631496417 .
    • German translation: This America. Manifesto for a Better Nation , CH Beck, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-406-74920-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The pronunciation of the name can be heard at the beginning of this video .
  2. ↑ Barbara Mahany: Annotation Tuesday! Jill Lepore and "The Prodigal Daughter". In: Nieman Storyboard. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, April 12, 2016 .;
  3. ^ Hannah Arendt Prize for American historian , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, August 19, 2021.
  4. ↑ a b Michael Hochgeschwender : What does free and equal mean here? , SZ, November 5, 2019
  5. ↑ Martin Doerry : Ein schlingerndes Schiff, in: Spiegel-Bestseller, Winter 2019, pp. 12-14, here 13.
  6. ↑ Claus Leggewie: For a New Americanism , taz, January 15, 2020
  7. ↑ Tobias Rüther: A nation born in contradictions , FAZ, November 1, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Lepore, Jill
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian, essayist, and author
BIRTH DATE August 27, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH West Boylston