Jane Kamensky to deliver 3rd Jim Jones Lecture

Mon, 03/28/16

The Department of History's 3rd Annual James P. Jones Lecture which will be given on April 21st at 5pm at the Rendina Room, FSU Alumni Center. This year's lecturer will be Jane Kamensky, Professor of History and Pforzheimer Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard University. Author of Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England, The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America’s First Banking Collapse and her forthcoming book, A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley, Professor Kamensky teaches early America, the age of revolutions, and the Atlantic world, with concentration in the histories of family, culture, and everyday life. Professor Kamensky's lecture is entitled "John Singleton Copley and the Art of War." We very much hope you'll be able to join us for what promises to be an important and timely lecture.