Today we are celebrating Jill Lepore’s new book “The Story of America: Essays on Origins,” a collection of essays that investigates how Americans construct and reconstruct the concept of democracy through storytelling. Included in the book is a piece Lepore wrote for The American Scholar on America’s most popular poet in the 19th century, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. You can find that article on our site.
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Today we are celebrating Jill Lepore’s new book “The Story of America: Essays on Origins,” a collection of essays that investigates how Americans construct and reconstruct the concept of democracy through storytelling.

Included in the book is a piece Lepore wrote for The American Scholar on America’s most popular poet in the 19th century, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. You can find that article on our site.

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