‘Repair, correct, improve, adapt, update, those are good ideas’—Jill Lepore on amending the Constitution

About the guestProfessor Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. A prize-winning professor, she teaches classes in evidence, historical methods, humanistic inquiry, and American history. Her latest book, We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution (Liveright, 2026) won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in History.Professor Lepore was elected to the Academy in 2014.Visit our website to access the related Archives content discussed in the episode. Gino Beniamino produces Amacad.“Love Endures,” from the jazz quartet 4-Sight featuring Rodney Whitaker, is the Amacad theme music.