Education
Ph.D. – University of Chicago 1966
M. A. – University of Chicago 1963
B. A. – University of Memphis 1961

Current Departmental Service
Director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History, Undergraduate Education Committee (Prizes and Honors Chair), Development Committee Chair

Interests and Research
Kenneth T. Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences and Director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History, specializes in urban, social, and military history.

Affiliations
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Committee of the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Director's Council, Historic House Trust of New York City
Fellow, American Antiquarian Society
Advisory Board, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Member, Scholars and Archivists Committee, New York State Archives
Editorial Board, H-URBAN (an electronic message system of specialists)
Editorial Board, New York Journal of American History
Director, Henry R. Luce Foundation
Trustee, New-York Historical Society
Trustee, New York State Historical Association
Trustee, National Council for History Education
Trustee, Regional Plan Association
Trustee, The Society of American Historians, Inc.
General Editor, The Columbia History of Urban life
Editor-in-Chief, The Encyclopedia of New York City
Steward, New York State Archives Partnership Trust

Courses
ON LEAVE FALL 2008

Honorary Doctorates from the City University of New York, the State University of New York, the University of the South at Sewanee, and St. Peter's College Notable New Yorker Award, The Skyscraper Museum, 1999 Dean’s Distinguished Award in the Humanities, College of Physicians And Surgeons, 1999
Gold Medal of Merit, St. Nicholas Society of New York
Distinguished Award in the Humanities, College of Physicians and Surgeons
President, Urban History Association
President, Society of American Historians
President, Organization of American Historians
President, The New-York Historical Society
The Bancroft Prize for Crabgrass Frontier
The Francis Parkman Prize for Crabgrass Frontier
Society of Columbia Graduates, Great Teacher Award, 1999
Tannenbaum-Warner Award of the Columbia University Seminars, 2000
New York State Scholar of the Year, 2001
Servant of Education Award of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, 2003
Delbarton Medal, Delmont School, New Jersey, 2004
Benson-Pintard Medal, New-York Historical Society, 2004
Nicholas Murray Butler Medal, Columbia University, 2005
The Urban History Association renames its Best Book in American
History to the Kenneth Jackson Prize, 2006

Books
The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930
The Almanac of New York City
American Vistas
Cities in American History
Atlas of American History
Crabgrass Frontier: the Suburbanization of the United States
Silent Cities: The Evolution of the American Cemetery
Editor-in-Chief, The Encyclopedia of New York City
Editor-in-Chief, Dictionary of American Biography
The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn
Empire City: New York Through the Centuries
Editor-in-Chief, The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives
Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York

Scholarly Articles
"All the World's a Mall:  Reflections on the Social and Economic Consequences of the American Shopping Center," American Historical Review, October 1996, pp. 1111-1121.
"NCHE: Where School and University Meet," The History Teacher, February 1998.
"Manila John of Guadacanal: Hero of the Pacific War," in Susan Ware, ed., Forgotten Heroes of American History (New York: Basic Books, 1998).
"Reflections on the Consolidation of New York," New York Law School Law Review, XLII, (1998), pp. 713-721.
"Divided Highways," review essay in Harvard Design Magazine, Winter-Spring, 1999, pp. 84-85.
"The Future of New York, 1898-1998," Fordham Urban Law Journal, XXVII (October 1999), pp. 167-196.
"Introduction," to Jameson Doig, Empire on the Hudson: The New York Port Authority (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000).
"Gentleman's Agreement: Discrimination in Metropolitan America," in Bruce Katz, ed., Reflections on Regionalism (Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2000,
pp. 185-217.
"Memphis, Tennessee: The Rise and Fall of Main Street," in William E. Leuchtenburg, ed., American Places: Encounters with History (New York:Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 169-184.
"Is History Flunking as a Profession?" OAH Newsletter (August, 2000), p. 13.
"Introduction," in Perspectives on the Collections of the New-York Historical Society (New York: New-York Historical Society, 2000), pp. 1-9.
"The History Monograph and Electronic Publishing," OAH Newsletter (February, 2001), p. 11.
"Days of Rage: The Rise and Fall of a Great City, July 12-15, 1967," in Alan Brinkley and James McPherson, eds., Days of Destiny (New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2001).
Op Ed, "Why 8,008,278 is an Important Number," New York Times, March 30, 2001.
"Making History Matter Again: The Bradley Commission on History in Schools: A Retrospective," The Lion Letter, Summer, 2001
"The Transformation of the American Metropolis (1825-1861," in Catherine Hoover Vorsanger, ed., Great Emporium Empire City (Yale University Press, 2001).
"The Power of History: The Weakness of a Profession," The Journal of American History, March 2002.
"Suburbs: Examining the American Dream," in David Halberstam, ed., Defining a Nation (Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2003) pp. 130-137.
"Introduction, in Gray Williams " Picturing Our Past: National Register Sites in Westchester County, (Elmsford: Westchester County Historical Society, 2003)
Op Ed, "Heart of Darkness," Wall Street Journal, April 18, 2003.
Op Ed, "From Rail to Ruin," New York Times, November 2, 2003.
"Introduction," in Sara Cedar Miller Central Park: An American Masterpiece
(New York: Harnny N. Abrams, 2003)
"Rudolph Giuliani's Legacy," Gotham Gazette, Summer, 2004, 31.
"Seemingly Insignificant: The Importance of Ordinary Artifacts from the World Trade Center," The New York Journal of American History, Fall, 2004, 141-142.
"The Operator," Review of Kenneth D. Ackerman, Boss Tweed: The Rise and Fall of the Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York, in Washington Post, March 27, 2005.
"The Road to Hell: The United States, Japan, and the Evolution of National Patterns of Transport and Suburban Housing," in Proceedings of the Kyoto American Studies Seminar, August 1-3, 2005, (Center for American Studies, Risumeikan University, Kyoto, 2006), pp. 93-110.
"A Nation of Suburbs," in Ellen J. Keiter, I Love the Burbs (Katonah Museum of Art, 2005), pp. 3-4.
"Foreword," in Roger Panetta, Westchester: The American Suburb (New York:
Fordham University Press, 2006)
"New York City," in David Goldfield, ed., The Encyclopedia of American Urban History (Sage Publications, 2007)
"From These Honored Dead: Memorial Day and Veterans Day in American History," History Now.
"Foreword," in Becky Nicolaides and James Andrew Wiese, The Suburb Reader,
(New York and London: Routledge, 2007)
"Asher B. Durand's New York: the Life of the City in the Nineteenth Century, " in Linda Ferber ed., Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape (London: D. Giles Limited and the Brooklyn Museum, 2007), pp. 27-44.
"Robert Moses and the Rise of New York: The Power Brower in Perspective," in
Robert Moses and the Modern City, pp. 67-71.