On Dec. 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan launched an air raid on the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, killing more than 2,300 Americans. The United States declared war against Japan the following ...

In her characteristically lively history of the U.S. Constitution, Lepore argues that the document’s capacity for amendment was not only central to the founders’ political thinking but essential to ...

Americans celebrated Constitution Day on Wednesday, marking the ratification of the founding document for the nation’s government. To mark the occasion and ahead of the U.S. semiquincentennial, the ...

WASHINGTON — Calling all history buffs, history teachers or curious individuals to the National Archives to celebrate Constitution Day. To celebrate 250 years of American freedom, the National ...

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Harvard history professor Jill Lepore about the state of the U.S. Constitution, 236 years after its ratification. This week marks 236 years since the United States ...

Originalism is often countered by the idea that the Constitution is a living, breathing document meant to be interpreted and changed along with the times. Jill Lepore is a historian at Harvard ...

Harvard’s Jill Lepore is a triple threat: lauded historian, prominent legal scholar and New Yorker journalist. She approaches the American experiment from myriad angles, drawing on protagonists such ...

The entire U.S. Constitution is to go on display for the first time as part of the National Archives’ celebration of the 250th anniversary of the nation. The Constitution and the original Bill of ...

‘We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution’ by Jill Lepore From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. From our ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution" (to be published Sept. 16 by Liveright), Harvard professor and ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution" (to be published Sept. 16 by Liveright), Harvard professor and ...

Jill Lepore’s latest best seller “lands at the right moment, like a life buoy, as our ship of state takes on water,” said Hamilton Cain in the Los Angeles Times. The lauded historian, prominent legal ...