Cross-promoting an exciting event: Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore will be speaking at Rutgers on March 5th, as part of the Rutgers Book Initiative! Dr. Lepore’s lecture is titled “Bodies of Evidence: A Very Brief History of Knowledge,” and will be delivered at Alexander Library Teleconference Hall (Room 403) at 4:30pm.
Jill Lepore’s writing covers a wide range of topics, from early encounters between colonists and natives in North America to the history of American ideas about conception and death, catering to specialists and popular audiences alike. If you want to understand the role of American history in contemporary American politics, pick up Lepore’s book on the Tea Party, The Whites of Their Eyes! If you’re interested in comic book heroes or twentieth-century feminism (or both), take a look at The Secret History of Wonder Woman! If you’re curious about what life might have been like during the American Revolution, why not check out her portrait of Ben Franklin’s sister, Book of Ages? All these titles, and more are available at Rutgers University Libraries — happy reading!