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Jane Kamensky
Jane Kamensky is Professor of History at Harvard University and Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is a historian of early America, the Atlantic world, and the age of revolutions, with particular interests in the histories of family, culture, and everyday life. She is the author of several historical works including the novel Blindspot, co-authored with Jill Lepore. Her most recent book is A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley.
Books by Jane Kamensky
Interviews with Jane Kamensky
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The Journal of John Winthrop
by John Winthrop -
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Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the Antebellum North
by James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton -
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Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
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Interpreter of Maladies
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Mapping Boston
by Alex Krieger and David Cobb (editors)
The best books on Boston, recommended by Jane Kamensky
The best books on Boston, recommended by Jane Kamensky
The idea of Boston as “a place of revolutionary fervour because liberty is somehow baked into its bones” is loaded with a “very heavy dose of self-mythologizing,” says American historian Jane Kamensky. Here, the Harvard professor lifts the veil on this quintessential New England city and recommends five books for understanding its history
