Jill Lepore's Books
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WebsterismsFor everyone who's ever gone to "look it up in Webster's"—a crisp new view of the man behind the dictionary and his magnum opus.Read More
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World News Network, June 2, 2013
...Ages to the Present, Polity, 2008. Referred to in "Rap Sheet Why is American history so murderous?" by Jill Lepore New Yorker, November 9, 2009 ^ "Homicide Rates in the United States 1900-1990"....
Lawrence.com, June 2, 2013
...Global Muslims in the Post-Osama Era” (2011), argues for a pacifist alternative to religious extremism. • Oct. 22: Jill Lepore, “Unseen — The History of Privacy” Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History and...
World News Network, May 28, 2013
...Ages to the Present, Polity, 2008. Referred to in "Rap Sheet Why is American history so murderous?" by Jill Lepore New Yorker, November 9, 2009 ^ "Homicide Rates in the United States 1900-1990"....
New Yorker, May 27, 2013
...Robert L. Ripley, who was heavyset and dainty, wore his dark widow’s peak slicked back flat and had teeth so jutting and crooked that, until he got some of them yanked out and straighter fakes jammed back in (which hurt like hell), he looked remarkably...
Buffalo News, May 26, 2013
...Frank over some toasted cheese, for one. The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death by Jill Lepore This amusing, informative and very different history of the United States traces the evolution of ideas about life itself, with much to...
World News Network, May 15, 2013
...Ages to the Present, Polity, 2008. Referred to in "Rap Sheet Why is American history so murderous?" by Jill Lepore New Yorker, November 9, 2009 ^ "Homicide Rates in the United States 1900-1990"....
Hartford Courant, May 10, 2013
...ve Got a Job." Highly Recommended Julia Ward Howe books are David Gillham's "City of Women," Jill Lepore's "Mansion of Happiness," Junot Diaz's "This Is How You Lose Her," and Eric Jay Dolin's "When America First Met China." Highly Recommended...
HighBeam Research, May 31, 2013
...the Humanities has announced the speakers for its 2013-2014 Humanities Lecture Series. The series will include Arsalan Iftikhar, Jill Lepore, Junot Diaz, Anne Hedeman, Peter Brown and Jeffrey Toobin. The lectures are free, open to the public, and begin...
Harvard University Gazette, May 30, 2013
...a series of three book talks in the Widener Library rotunda, featuring Professors John Dowling, Jennifer Hochschild, and Jill Lepore, and also hosts fireside chats with Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Matthew Nock to foster interaction between students and...
New Yorker, May 28, 2013
...In this week’s issue of the magazine, Jill Lepore reviews Neal Thompson’s biography “A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert ‘Believe It or Not!’ Ripley.” In it, he notes that Ripley “set out to...
University of Kansas, May 28, 2013
...the Humanities has announced the speakers for its 2013-2014 Humanities Lecture Series. The series will include Arsalan Iftikhar, Jill Lepore, Junot Díaz, Anne Hedeman, Peter Brown and Jeffrey Toobin. The lectures are free, open to the public, and begin...
Inside Higher Ed, May 28, 2013
...the letter were Robert Darnton (the university librarian), Stephen Greenblatt (English), Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (history and African-American studies), Jill Lepore (history), Harry R. Lewis (computer science), Louis Menand (English), Steven Pinker...
World News Network, May 28, 2013
...Ages to the Present, Polity, 2008. Referred to in "Rap Sheet Why is American history so murderous?" by Jill Lepore New Yorker, November 9, 2009 ^ "Homicide Rates in the United States 1900-1990"....
New Yorker, May 27, 2013
...Robert L. Ripley, who was heavyset and dainty, wore his dark widow’s peak slicked back flat and had teeth so jutting and crooked that, until he got some of them yanked out and straighter fakes jammed back in (which hurt like hell), he looked remarkably...
