Making It: A Talk by Historian Kenneth Jackson

April 13, 2023

Making It:

How Immigration, Diversity, and Tolerance

Have Kept New York City on Top of the World Since 1945

Kenneth T. Jackson

Tuesday, April 18 at 12pm

Talk and Luncheon at Faculty House

A remarkable 60 percent of New Yorkers are immigrants or children of immigrants. New York City is America’s classic immigrant city, a major historic gateway for the country’s eastern and southern European arrivals a century ago and a major receiving center today. The city’s immigrant history, extraordinary diversity of its current immigrants, and institutions have combined to make it a city like no other in the United States. Renowned historian Kenneth Jackson traced the New York’s immigrant past and present to uncover the reasons behind the city’s greatness.

Kenneth T. Jackson is Jacques Barzun Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University and former Director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History. He has lectured at hundreds of colleges, universities, civic groups, and historical societies around the world, and has been a featured guest in scores of media programs and documentaries.

RSVP to Attend in Person

A copy of the following books by Prof. Kenneth Jackson will be given away as door prizes. Two books will be given to EPIC members attending virtually.

The Encyclopedia of New York City (2010)

Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York (2007)

Empire City: New York Through the Centuries (2002)

The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn (1998)

The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915–1930 (1992)

Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (1985)