Lopsided

with Jill Lepore

Jill Lepore is a professor of history at Harvard University, and a staff writer for the New Yorker.  As a historian, Jill Lepore takes special care to write-in the stories of people footnoted, or even erased, in the official accounts of history. She also tries to find or describe their likenesses or portraits of their contemporaries, or their descendants.

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Woman seated in an office filled with books

Jill Lepore: Photo by Connie Yan for The Harvard Crimson

Credits and References

  • President Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley / 2018, Oil on canvas /National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution​/ © 2018 Kehinde Wiley / NPG.2018.16
  • First Lady Michelle Obama by Amy Sherald, 2018, Oil on linen / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution / NPG.2018.15
  • Ida B. Wells-Barnett by Sallie E. Garrity / c. 1893, Albumen silver print / National Portrait Gallery / NPG.2009.36
  • Benjamin Franklin by Edward Savage, Copy after: Benjamin West,  Copy after: David Martin / 1793, Mezzotint on paper / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution / NPG.70.9
  • Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Siffred Duplessis / Oil on canvas, c. 1785 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation / NPG.87.43
  • ​Cover: Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore/ Published by Penguin Random House, July 2014
  • Portrait of Jane Flagg Greene, known as Jenny, Jane Mecom's granddaughter and namesake by Joseph Badger