From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kenneth T. Jackson
Kenneth T. Jackson
Kenneth Terry Jackson (born 1939) is a professor of histo-
ry and social sciences at Columbia University. A frequent
Selected works
television guest, he is best known as an urban historian • The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930 (1967)
and a preeminent authority on New York City, where he • Cities in American History (1972)
lives on the Upper West Side. • Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United
States (1985)
• Silent Cities: The Evolution of the American Cemetery
Biographical details (1990), with Camilo Vergara
Jackson was born in Memphis, Tennessee, earning his • The Encyclopedia of New York City (1995), (ed.)
B.A. in 1961 at the University of Memphis and his Ph.D. in • Empire City (2002), (ed.), with David Dunbar (ed.)
1966 at the University of Chicago. He served as an assis- • Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of
tant professor for the Air Force Institute of Technology New York (2007), (ed.), with Hilary Ballon (ed.)
at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base from 1965 to 1968 and
then joined the Columbia faculty as an assistant profes-
sor in 1968, earning his tenure by 1970.
See also
Jackson’s achievements as an author include The Ku • Jane Jacobs
Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930 (1967), Cities in American His- • Mike Wallace
tory (1972), Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the • Craig Steven Wilder
United States (1985), and The Encyclopedia of New York City
(1995), for which he served as the primary editor. Crab-
grass Frontier, a comprehensive study of the factors in-
External links
fluencing suburban growth in the United States is the • Columbia University Department of History: Kenneth
preeminent source on the history of American suburban- T. Jackson Faculty Bio
ization.[citation needed] The Encyclopedia of New York City is a • New York State Writers Institute: Kenneth T. Jackson
massive collection of entries and articles that encompass • PBS: Interview with Kenneth T. Jackson
much of modern day New York and the city’s history. Persondata
Jackson has earned numerous distinctions as a pro- Name Jackson, Kenneth T.
fessor at Columbia University where he is the director
Alternative names
of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History
and the Jacques Barzun Professor of History and Social Short description
Sciences. Jackson teaches a lecture class at the university Date of birth 1939
on "The History of the City of New York." The course
Place of birth
includes numerous field trips, including walking tours,
bus trips and an annual all-night bike ride led by Jackson Date of death
from Morningside Heights in Manhattan to the Prome- Place of death
nade in Brooklyn. The all-night bike ride is in its 37th
consecutive year, as of 2011, and has received coverage
from media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal.
Jackson has also served as president of the Urban His-
tory Association, the Society of American Historians, the
Organization of American Historians, and the New-York
Historical Society.
Jackson was a prominent on camera presence in the
1999 film, New York: A Documentary Film, directed by
Ric Burns for PBS.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kenneth T. Jackson
Categories:
• 1939 births
• People from Memphis, Tennessee
• Living people
• Columbia University faculty
• Historians of New York City
• Urban historians
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