Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.
Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. - Jill Lepore
Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.
- Jill Lepore
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it. - Jill Lepore
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.
History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else. - Jill Lepore
History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.
Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s. - Jill Lepore
Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s.
Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through. - Jill Lepore
Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.
In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world. - Jill Lepore
In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world.
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
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, …
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
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…
Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology. - Jill Lepore
Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.
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