Jill Lepore

Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History, studies the history of colonial, Revolutionary, and antebellum America.  Her books include Blindspot, a novel written with Jane Kamensky and due out in 2008; Websterisms, an edited selection of Noah Webster’s dictionary, compiled by Arthur Schulman (also forthcoming in 2008); New York Burning: Liberty and Slavery in an Eighteenth-Century City (2005), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity (1998), Winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award; Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents (1999); and A is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States (2002).

Contact information: Jill Lepore, History Department