If it began as a protest and a rally and a march, it ended as something altogether different. But what? Sedition, treason, a failed revolution, an attempted coup? And what will it be called, looking back? In this article for The New Yorker, Harvard historian Jill Lepore tries to shed light on how to interpret the attack on the US Capitol. Lepore visited the John Adams in 2019 to discuss her book These Thruths.
Jill Lepore: “What Should We Call the Sixth of January?”
If it began as a protest and a rally and a march, it ended as something altogether different. But what? Sedition, treason, a failed revolution, an attempted coup? And what will it be called, looking back? In this article for The New Yorker, Harvard historian Jill Lepore tries to shed light on how to interpret the attack on the US Capitol. Lepore visited the John Adams in 2019 to discuss her book These Thruths.
