jill lepore, these truths podcast

In “The Last Archive,” Lepore mixes history and 1930s-style radio drama to solve a timely whodunit. By engaging with our country's painful past (and present) in an intellectually honest way, she has created a book that truly does encapsulate the American story in all its pain and all its triumph.” - Michael Schaub, NPR Jill Lepore’s New Podcast Is a Murder Mystery: Who Killed Truth? This week, we're asking New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore about her great new book of the entire history of the U.S., These Truths, which our reviewer calls 'a splendid rendering?filled with triumph, tragedy, and hope?that will please Lepore's readers immensely and win her many new ones.'

"The Last Archive," a podcast by Jill Lepore (Courtesy) Rummaging through the archives of the Harvard Law School library, historian and New Yorker writer Jill Leporecame across the files of a … The show is driven by host Jill Lepore’s work as a historian, uncovering the secrets of the past the way a detective might. But in this episode, the tables are turned: I’m in the hot seat, and Lepore has some questions.

This question surfaces throughout Jill Lepore 's brilliant new history of the United States: These Truths.

Listen on Apple Podcasts Jill Lepore is a Harvard historian, a New Yorker contributor, the author of These Truths, and one of my favorite past guests on this show. Acclaimed historian Jill Lepore brings listeners into the depths of finding answers with her new podcast, "The Last Archive," a new series from … “Jill Lepore is an extraordinarily gifted writer, and These Truths is nothing short of a masterpiece of American history. These days, truth … It’s a show about how we know what we know, and why it seems, these days, as if we don’t know anything at all anymore. Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer for The New Yorker, where she writes about politics, history, law, and literature.Her dozen books include These Truths: A History of the United States, cited as “nothing short of a masterpiece” by NPR, and, out this fall, If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future.