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Jane Kamensky

Jane Kamensky

Jane Kamensky, a historian at Brandeis University, is working on a book about John Singleton Copley. She is a co-author of the textbook, A People and a Nation: A History of the United States (Norton).

The Forum was among the many sights in Rome that amazed Copley, who said he was “feasting my eyes.”

When Colonial America’s Greatest Painter Took His Brush to Europe

John Singleton Copley left for Europe on the eve of the American Revolution. A historian and her teenage son made the trip to see why