# Jane Kamensky
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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.
Kamensky graduated from Yale University in 1985 with a B.A., and in 1993 with a Ph.D. in History.
299 Colonial Virginia Portraits
What can a portrait reveal about the history of colonial British America? Portraits were both deeply personal and yet collaborative artifacts left behind by people of the past. When historians look at multiple portraits created around the same time and place, their similarities can reveal importan…
271 BFW Team Favorites: Paul Revere's Ride Through History
On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere rode to Lexington, Massachusetts to spread the alarm that the Regulars were marching. Revere made several important rides between 1774 and 1775, including one in September 1774 that brought the Suffolk Resolves to the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia. So wh…
228 The Boston Massacre
On the evening of March 5, 1770, a crowd gathered in Boston’s King Street and confronted a a sentry and his fellow soldiers in front of the custom house. The confrontation led the soldiers to fire their muskets into the crowd, five civilians died. What happened on the night of March 5, 1770 that l…
160 The Politics of Tea
How did early Americans go from hosting social tea parties to hosting protests like the Boston Tea Party? Tea played a central role in the economic, cultural, and political lives of early Americans. As such, tea came to serve as a powerful symbol of both early American culture and of the American …
130 Paul Revere's Ride Through History (Doing History Rev)
On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere rode to Lexington, Massachusetts to spread the alarm that the Regulars were marching. Revere made several important rides between 1774 and 1775, including one in September 1774 that brought the Suffolk Resolves to the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia. So wh…
112 The Tea Crisis of 1773 (Doing History Revolution)
On December 16, 1773, the colonists of Boston threw 342 chests of English East India Company tea into Boston Harbor, an act we remember as the “Boston Tea Party.” Have you ever wondered what drove the Bostonians to destroy the tea? Or whether they considered any other less destructive options for …
106 The World of John Singleton Copley
What can the life of an artist reveal about the American Revolution and how most American men and women experienced it? Today, we explore the life and times of John Singleton Copley with Jane Kamensky, a Professor of History at Harvard University and the author of A Revolution in Color: The World …
AEPi members arrested in relation to hazing incident
This week host Lola Rohl speaks with Daily Cardinal Campus News Editor Sonia Bendre and staff writer Oliver Ehrhardt about their story, “AEPi fraternity president, vice president arrested for hazing,” in a discussion of the repercussions and future of pledge manipulative tactics on university campu…
117: Katherine Grandjean Lands Every Word Like a Tiny Punch
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Shubha Sunder - The Push and Pull of Constructing a Life
Second of four in the Upstart Crow–Fairfax County Public Library Interview Series, celebrating America's 250th anniversary. More information about the series and upcoming interviews is available below.
If a person has room and time to choose where and how to construct a life, what will they choose?…
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