About the author
Jill Lepore is a historian of the United States at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her work moves between archival scholarship and public history, often asking how incomplete records become national stories.
We the People studies the Constitution through efforts to amend and reinterpret it. The emphasis on campaigns that failed keeps constitutional history from becoming only a list of ratified text and court decisions.
Where to start
Start with We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution for a history organized around the tension between durability and democratic change.
