#  Radcliffe: How Wonder Woman Got into Harvard: Lecture by Jill Lepore 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 30, 2014** 

 04:15PM - 04:15PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge MA**  



 

 



 

**[Harvard Gazette Article - 11/4/14  
  ](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/11/a-sense-of-wonder/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11.05.2014%20(1))***Prof. Lepore interviewed about The Secret History of Wonder Woman on the Colbert Report,   
10-30-14:*

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**How Wonder Woman Got into Harvard**Lecture by [Jill Lepore](http://scholar.harvard.edu/jlepore/home) BI ’00, the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard and a staff writer at *The New Yorker*. Her biography of Benjamin Franklin’s sister, *Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin*, was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Her latest book, *The Secret History of Wonder Woman*, will be published in October.

Wonder Woman is the most popular female comic-book superhero of all time. Aside from Superman and Batman, no other comic-book character has lasted as long. Like every other superhero, Wonder Woman has a secret identity. Unlike every other superhero, she also has a secret history. In this illustrated lecture, Lepore lifts that veil of secrecy to reveal that Wonder Woman’s past lies at Harvard and [Radcliffe](http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2014-jill-lepore-lecture).

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