Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.

- Jill Lepore

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

- Jill Lepore

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.

- Jill Lepore

Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s.

- Jill Lepore

In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world.

- Jill Lepore

Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.

- Jill Lepore

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, …

- Jill Lepore

A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What has made the Con…

- Jill Lepore

Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.

- Jill Lepore