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