JILL LEPORE is the author of The Name of War: King Phillip’s War and the Origins of American Identity, winner of the Bancroft Prize, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, and the Berkshire Prize, and A is for America: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States. She received her Ph.D. from Yale and is currently professor of history at Harvard. With Jane Kamensky, she founded Commonplace, an online historical journal.