A s America prepares for the 250th anniversary of its declaration of independence from Britain, there is a pitched battle over what the American story is, and who gets to tell it. Jill Lepore is at ...

Beneath the shadow of a European castle, my boyfriend proposed to me. Just a few weeks later, my parents declined an invitation to our wedding. It wasn’t that they were unavailable – they simply ...

I don’t remember precisely when I first heard the word “gifted,” but it must have been in early elementary school. I do remember being pulled out of my first-grade class and led to the fifth-grade ...