These Truths

Lepore’s framework insists that the “self-evident” truths of the nation’s founding were anything but.

Historical narratives of the United States have never not been shaped by an anxiety about the end of it all. Are we a new Rome or a new Zion?

Jill Lepore’s awkward embrace of the nation.

In Jill Lepore's "These Truths," ideas produce other ideas. But new ideas arise from thinking humans, not from other ideas.

Jill Lepore's widely-praised history of the U.S. relies on the eventual exit of indigenous actors to make way for other dramas.

You can’t tell the story of America without the story of labor.

A review of Jill Lepore's new book, which she has called the most ambitious single-volume American history written in generations.