Oregon State University’s History Dept will be using Blindspot: A Novel by two acclaimed historians, Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore, for its course on “The Historian’s Craft” this fall.

Blindspot is a novel of painting, passion, and politics in
the age of the American Revolution. Written with wit
and exuberance by longtime friends and accomplished
historians, 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.

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: http://www.blindspotthenovel.com/

 For more information on the book and the authors, visit http://www.randomhouse.com/acmart

Read an excerpt here:

http://www.randomhouse.com/acmart/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385526197&view=excerpt

Order an exam copy here.