Kenneth T. Jackson

Kenneth T. Jackson (2002) is the director emeritus of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History and the Jacques Barzun Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. His many books include Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States, which won both the Bancroft and Francis Parkman Prizes; The Encyclopedia of New York City; and The Ku Klux Klan in the City. He has served as president of the Urban History Association, the Society of American Historians, the Organization of American Historians, the New York Historical Society, and the New York Academy of History, and he founded 1990 the National Council for History Education. A graduate of the University of Memphis (B.A.) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D.), he is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.