The Public Historian

In a conversation that opens with high-school recollections before venturing into seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America, Lepore describes how she became the person she is today: a well-known scholar of early American history, a winner of the Bancroft Prize, a former NEH research fellow, and the author of numerous essays and several distinguished books. [...] I did find a story, a story to tell about how 1 decided to become a historian. [...] we addressed the letters to our parents' houses.