To All:

 

            The following event is FREE for Upstate History Alliance
(UHA), Museum Association of New York (MANY) and Association of Public
Historians of New York State (APHNYS) Members, Please join us for an
exciting evening. 

 

Garet D. Livermore

Vice President for Education

New York State Historical Association

Cooperstown, NY 

 


For Immediate Release
Contact: Christine Liggio


(607) 547-1472; e-mail: [log in to unmask]

 

 


Urban Historian Kenneth T. Jackson to Speak at Fenimore Art Museum


 

Cooperstown, NY, April 20, 2006-Urban historian and preeminent authority
of New York history, Kenneth T. Jackson, will speak on Friday, May 5th,
on New York State's powerful and unique, but largely unheralded role in
American history at Fenimore Art Museum.  The lecture, "But it was in
New York: America begins in the Empire State," will begin at 7 pm. 

 

Jackson will argue that events in New York, more than in any other
state, have played a dominant role in shaping American history.  But,
for a variety of reasons, most Americans are not aware of this. This
lecture presents Jackson's research developed over the last 30 years
that will be used as the basis for a major statewide effort to
reinvigorate the popular and academic understanding of New York history.
Jackson will emphasize the topics in which the people of New York
influenced national history. These issues span time from the Native
Americans, through early settlement and establishment of our nation
through industrialization, urbanization and the communications
revolution.  In each of them New York State has played a dominant role
in establishing the cultural, economic and political patterns that
created modern America. 

 

Kenneth T. Jackson is Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social
Sciences at Columbia University, specializing in American social and
urban history. He is also Editor-in-Chief of The Encyclopedia of New
York City, Director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for the Study of
American History, and President Emeritus of The New-York Historical
Society. He received his B.A. from the University of Memphis in 1961 and
his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1966. His publications
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 Silent Cities: The Evolution of the American
Cemetery, with Camilo Vergara (1990). 

 

The lecture will be held from 7-9 pm in the auditorium at Fenimore Art
Museum. A light reception follows. Admission is $7 non-member and $5 for
members of the New York State Historical Association. For reservations
and information, please call (607) 547-1400 or toll-free at (888)
547-1450. 

 

Fenimore Art Museum is located on 5798 State Hwy. 80, Lake Road in
Cooperstown, NY. Museum admission is $11 for adults, $9.50 for visitors
age 65 and over, and $5 for children age 7 to 12; children 6 and under
and members are admitted free. Reduced price combination admission
tickets that include The Farmers' Museum and The National Baseball Hall
of Fame and Museum are also available. The museum is open from April 1
through December 31. For museum hours or general information, please
call 1-888-547-1450 or visit www.fenimoreartmuseum.org.