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Name
  
Jane Kamensky

Role
  
Historian

Education
  
Yale University


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Books
  
Blindspot: By a Lady in Disguis, Governing the tongue, Cengage Advantage Books: a, Colonial Mosaic, The Exchange Artist: A T

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Jane Kamensky, an American historian, is a Professor of History at Harvard University. She is also the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library.

Contents

Kamensky graduated from Yale University, with a B.A. and Ph.D. in History. She was a Radcliffe Institute Fellow in 2006–2007. She married Dennis J. Scannell Jr. in 1987; they live in Cambridge, Massachusetts with their two sons.

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Awards and honors

  • 1987 Mellon Fellow
  • 2009 George Washington Book Prize finalist
  • 2009 Fellow, Society of American Historians
  • 2016 Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History for A Revolution in Color

    • Works

  • A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley, W. W. Norton. 2016. ISBN 978-0-393-24001-6.
  • "Boom and Bust: It's the American Way". The Los Angeles Times. July 20, 2008. 
  • The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America’s First Banking Collapse. Viking. 2008. ISBN 978-0-670-01841-3. 
  • Jane Kamensky; Jill Lepore (2008). Blindspot: by a Gentleman in Exile and a Lady in Disguise. Random House, Inc. ISBN 978-0-385-52619-7. 
  • Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England. Oxford University Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-19-513090-4. 
  • Jane Kamensky (1998). Nancy F. Cott, ed. The Colonial Mosaic: American Women 1600-1760. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-512400-2. 

    • References

    Jane Kamensky Wikipedia
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