As many as two out of every three Europeans who came to the colonies were debtors on arrival: they paid for their passage by becoming indentured servants. Jill Lepore arrivalcolonydebtor Change image and share on social
Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die. Jill Lepore diediseaseepidemic Change image and share on social
One thing that always frustrated me was that, while Benjamin Franklin's was the best-known face of the eighteenth century, no one ever took his sister's likeness. Jill Lepore benjamincenturyeighteenth Change image and share on social
A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe. Jill Lepore christiangodman Change image and share on social
The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from strife and no harbor from terror. Jill Lepore fantasyharborimperfect Change image and share on social
Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson. Jill Lepore americanlonelyoffice Change image and share on social
I was obsessed with George Orwell for years. I remember going to the town library and having to put in interlibrary loan requests to get the compilation of his BBC radio pieces. I had to get everything he ever wrote. Jill Lepore bbccompilationgeorge share on social
Some people will always think they know how to make other people's marriages better, and, after a while, they'll get to cudgeling you or selling you something; the really entrepreneurial types will sell you the cudgel. Jill Lepore cudgelcudgelingentrepreneurial share on social
In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that were dying would hire temps - college students and new graduates - to do what little was left of the work of the employees they'd laid off. Jill Lepore callcollegecompany share on social
In 2010, one in four Americans got the news from Fox News. Jill Lepore americanfoxnews Change image and share on social
