Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her books include The Name of War, winner of the Bancroft Prize; New York Burning, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle over American History.
Jill Lepore
How Longfellow Woke the Dead
When first published 150 years ago, his famous poem about Paul Revere was read as a bold statement of his opposition to slavery
by Jill Lepore | Wednesday, March 02, 2011
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