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She questions who does Lepore think the “public” really is? As Genovese notes, multiple audiences consume history. Scholar, writer, and USIH blogger Holly Genovese responded that academic historians engage diverse audiences, the “public,” too. In the same interview, Lepore frames a dichotomy of “academic historians saying American history consists of conflict among groups who are generally powerless relative to the federal government,” versus “a public history that is about the power of the presidency and that ignores conflict among groups.” For Lepore, both the academics and the public, each as “partisan” as their counterpart, present only a partial truth. Lepore contends that the “United States was founded quite explicitly as a political experiment, an experiment in the science of politics” and thus, the story that has unfolded represents the findings of that experiment. Yet, historian Jill Lepore’s 2018 book, which marks the first attempt by a woman in modern history to encapsulate the history of the United States in a singular volume, is titled These Truths.įollowing her book’s release, Lepore made headlines with a Chronicle interview, reflecting among other things on the story of the United States as a philosophical experiment. When discussing our history or we the people, different Americans feel included in that to various extents today.

Cities like Boston, Philadelphia or Williamsburg can be the birthplace or cradle of the revolution. What is the true history of the United States? The story of the early American republic changes depending on who you ask and where you learn it.