Blindspot: A Novel by Two Acclaimed Historians, Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore, Required Reading, at Oregon State University

Blindspot: A Novel, written by two acclaimed historians, Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore, is a novel of painting, passion, and politics in the age of the American Revolution. Written with wit and exuberance by two longtime friends, the novel is at once fiction and history, mystery and love story, tragedy and farce. Set in the boisterous, rebellious Boston of 1764, Blindspot is filled with the bawdy, satirical sensibility of the eighteenth century.

Oregon State University’s History Dept will be using for its course on “The Historian’s Craft” this Fall.

Jane Kamensky is a professor of American history and chair of the History Department at Brandeis University.

Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University, where she is the chair of the History and Literature Program.

Author Website: www.blindspotthenovel.com

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Iowa State University’s Dept. of Art and Design will be Teaching Art Theory For Beginners

Iowa State University’s Dept. of Art and Design will be using Art Theory For Beginners this Fall for its Introduction to Visual Culture Studies course. 

From Paleolithic cave-painting to postmodernism, Art Theory For Beginners  is a concise and entertaining survey of the major historical and current debates on art. Painters, theorists and philosophers are all included to show how the idea of art has developed over the last 5,000 years.

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