The Harold and Avis Goldstein Lecture Series
welcomes
Jill Lepore
presenting
"An American History, Beginning to End"
Sunday, September 15
6:30pm Refreshments
7:00pm Lecture
at Derby Academy
Jill Lepore's many books include the bestselling 2018 book, These Truths: A History of the United States. She is a prolific writer, teacher, public speaker, and thinker about American culture and history, and is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University. She has been a staff writer at the The New Yorker magazine since 2005, and is the past president of the Society of American Historians.
This event is presented by the Hingham Public Library. Books, provided by Buttonwood Books and Toys, will be available for purchase at the event. Event information available here.
New York Times Bestseller
In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American history.