Early-American historian Jane Kamensky will deliver the annual William Watson Harrington Lecture at the University of Delaware from 7:30-9 p.m., Thursday, May 4, in Room 115 Purnell Hall.

The lecture, “A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley,” is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception.

Kamensky is a professor of history at Harvard University and the Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is a historian of early America, the Atlantic world and the age of revolutions and is particularly interested in the histories of family, culture and everyday life.

Her most recent book, with the same title as the lecture, is a history of painting and politics in the age of revolution. It won the 2017 New York Historical Society Book Prize.

The Harrington Lecture is presented by the Department of History.