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Jane Kamensky

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The '1776' Project

The Broadway revival of the musical means less to reanimate the nation’s founding than to talk back to it.

by Jane Kamensky via The Atlantic on October 13, 2022
Thankstaking

Was the 'first Thanksgiving' merely a pretext for the bloodshed, enslavement, and displacement that would follow in later decades?

by Jane Kamensky via Commonplace on January 1, 2001

Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below

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A collage of suggestive images of women, a woman holding a camera, and a red letter X.

How Candida Royalle Set Out to Reinvent Porn

As a feminist in the adult-film industry, she believed the answer wasn’t banning porn; it was better porn.

by Margaret Talbot via The New Yorker on March 18, 2024

The Challenge of Preserving the Historical Record of #MeToo

Archivists face a battery of technical and ethical questions with few precedents.

by Nora Caplan-Bricker via The New Yorker on March 11, 2019

History for a Post-Fact America

A review of Jill Lepore's new book, which she has called the most ambitious single-volume American history written in generations.

by Alex Carp via New York Review of Books on October 19, 2018

The Accidental Patriots

Many Americans could have gone either way during the Revolution.

by Caitlin Fitz via The Atlantic on December 1, 2016

Smiling porcelain salt and pepper shaker figures called "the Pilgrim Pair," and their children, "Lilgrims," atop two academic books about Puritan history entitled "The Barbarous Years" and "Seasons of Misery."

Come On, Lilgrim

The gap between academic and popular understandings of early American topics is an enduring challenge for early Americanists.

by Jonathan Beecher Field via Commonplace on December 16, 2015

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Dusting Off the Old Stories

What does the Jewish experience in the Revolutionary War say about America?

by Richard Kreitner via Jewish Review of Books on January 15, 2025

The cover of "The Deadline" by Jill Lepore.

The Hold of the Dead Over the Living

A conversation with Jill Lepore about the past decade — “a time that felt like a time, felt like history.”

by Jill Lepore, Julien Crockett via Los Angeles Review of Books on January 2, 2024

The Truth About Thanksgiving Is that the Debunkers Are Wrong

A response to claims that the First Thanksgiving was not a "thanksgiving" as the Pilgrims understood it.

by Jeremy Bangs via HNN on September 1, 2005

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