S1 – INTERVIEW 5: Jane Kamensky

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4.7 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Our interview with Jane Kamensky, professor of American history at Harvard University and author of Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England.

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0:00.0	Our guest today is Jane Kaminsky, professor of history at Harvard University.
0:06.7	She's also the director of the Schlesinger Library on the history of women in America
0:10.6	at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies.
0:13.8	She's a historian of the Atlantic world and the United States, with a particular interest
0:18.5	in the history of family, culture and everyday life.
0:22.0	You know, the stuff that makes history feel more real.
0:25.6	I had a chance to sit down with Professor Kaminsky this past summer, and we had a wonderful
0:29.7	conversation.
0:31.0	So without further delay, let's get on with the show.
0:35.2	This is the Unabscored Interview Series for season 1.
0:38.6	I'm Aaron Manky.
0:59.7	Hi, I'm Jane Kaminsky.
1:13.3	I teach history at Harvard University, and I'm also the director of the Schlesinger Library
1:18.5	on the history of women in the United States.
1:21.2	I want to start us off with a really, well, deceptively simple question, but it's pretty
1:25.1	complex.
1:26.1	I'm sure.
1:27.1	What was a witch in 1692?
1:29.6	A witch was somebody who made unexpected things happen.
1:35.8	Puritans lived in a world of portents and wonders, and omens.
1:40.2	They're always watching the sky.
1:42.0	They're watching the earth.
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