Jane Kamensky
Jane Kamensky’s many books include A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley, winner of the New-York Historical Society’s American History book prize along with three others. For thirty years, she worked as a history professor and higher education leader, most recently as Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University and director of the Schlesinger Library at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. In 2024, Kamensky became the president of Monticello/the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.
Jane Kamensky
Jane Kamensky’s many books include A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley, winner of the New-York Historical Society’s American History book prize along with three others. For thirty years, she worked as a history professor and higher education leader, most recently as Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University and director of the Schlesinger Library at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. In 2024, Kamensky became the president of Monticello/the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.
Awards
Winner — New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize, 2017
Winner — Massachusetts Book Award, 2017
Shortlisted — George Washington Book Prize, 2017
Books by Jane Kamensky
A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley
Jane Kamensky
Hardback, 2016
This bold new history recovers the American Revolution, as seen through the eyes of Boston-born painter John Singleton Copley.A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley
Jane Kamensky
Paperback, 2017
This bold new history recovers the American Revolution, as seen through the eyes of Boston-born painter John Singleton Copley.A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley
Jane Kamensky
E Book, 2016
This bold new history recovers the American Revolution, as seen through the eyes of Boston-born painter John Singleton Copley.Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below
Jane Kamensky
Hardback, 2024
Acclaimed historian Jane Kamensky chronicles an indelible twentieth-century American life—and offers an entirely new understanding of the so-called sexual revolution.Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below
Jane Kamensky
E Book
Acclaimed historian Jane Kamensky chronicles an indelible twentieth-century American life—and offers an entirely new understanding of the so-called sexual revolution.