Kenneth Jackson Biography

Jackson was born in Memphis Tennessee in 1939. He earned his B.A. in 1961 from University of Memphis where he was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity and his Ph.D. in 1966 at the University of Chicago. He served as an assistant professor for the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base from 1965 to 1968 and then joined the Columbia faculty as an assistant professor in 1968 earning his tenure by 1970.
Jackson's achievements as an author include The Ku Klux Klan in the City 1915-1930 (1967) Cities in American History (1972) Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (1985) and The Encyclopedia of New York City (1995) for which he served as the primary editor. Crabgrass Frontier a comprehensive study of the factors influencing suburban growth in the United States is the preeminent source on the history of American suburbanization.[citation needed] The Encyclopedia of New York City is a massive collection of entries and articles that encompass much of modern-day New York and the city's history.
Jackson has earned numerous distinctions as a professor at Columbia University where he is the director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History and the Jacques Barzun Professor of History and Social Sciences. Jackson teaches a lecture class at the university on The History of the City of New York. The course includes numerous field trips including walking tours bus trips and an annual all-night bike ride led by Jackson from Morningside Heights in Manhattan to the Promenade 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.

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