VIDEO: Jill Lepore draws standing-room-only crowd in Manchester for talk on press freedom and American history

Jill Lepore — a historian, author, New Yorker staff writer, Harvard professor and host of The Last Archive podcast — spoke to a highly engaged audience of VTDigger readers and supporters on Thursday, Sept. 5.The standing-room-only event, which took place at the Manchester Community Library, was an opportunity for Lepore to share her deep expertise in American history and the role that the free press — including VTDigger — has played in fostering democracy.If you were