We The People

Jill Lepore is Professor of American History at Harvard University and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She is a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of the international bestseller These Truths: A History of the United States (W. W. Norton & Company, 2018), an overview of American history in relation to the values we consider fundamental to this country. She studies the history of evidence, and her work examines inconsistencies in the historical record. Her essays have been collected in the book The Deadline, which explores personal and political life in contemporary America. She has won the PEN Award for the Art of the Essay.  

Professor Lepore’s most recent book, We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution (2025) discusses successful and unsuccessful amendments to the constitution and argues that the Framers did not intend for the Constitution to remain stagnant, “like a butterfly under glass,” but rather that it should be continuously amended and modified. The Clough Center is delighted to welcome Professor Lepore for the Clough Distinguished Lecture. Please join us for a thought-provoking lecture, and the final event of our fall semester.