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Jill Lepore: "Telling Stories About Why History Matters"
2009-04-02T19:00:00
National Council for Public History Annual Meeting Public Plenary is pleased to present:
Jill Lepore: "Telling Stories About Why History Matters"
WHERE: Providence's First Unitarian Church, 1 Benevolent Street, Providence.
WHEN: Thursday, April 2, 2009, 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and staff writer at The New Yorker, is the author of books and articles that have enormous appeal to historians as well as the general public, including The Name of War (1998) and New York Burning (2005), and a series of thoughtful reviews in The New Yorker. She has also served as a consultant for the National Parks Service, the Old State House in Boston, the Boston History Collaborative, and WGBH's American Experience. "Sometimes," Lepore writes, "history can read like a comic book: action, adventure, larger-than-life heroes, shocking tragedies. The past, like the present, is full of heroes, and villains, too. Unfortunately, a cartoon only gets you so far: it's colorful, but there's no denying it's flat. What happens when we try to make history rounder?"
This project has been made possible by a grant from the Rhode Island Foundation, a charitable community trust serving the people of Rhode Island. The public plenary is cosponsored by the Rhode Island Historical Society.
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