Columbia professor Kenneth Jackson to discuss race and suburbanization in Baltimore Kenneth Jackson, Director of the Herbert H. Lehman Center for the Study of American History and the Jacques Barzun Professor of History and Social Sciences at Columbia University, will present “The Road to Hell: Race, Suburbanization and the changing fortunes of Baltimore,” at Loyola College in Maryland on Thursday, April 12. His address begins at 7:30 p.m. in McGuire Hall East on the College’s North Charles Street campus. Jackson’s appearance is part of “Urban Spaces, Urban Voices,” the College’s 2007 Humanities Symposium. An annual program sponsored by Loyola’s Center for the Humanities, the Symposium encourages students and faculty to consider a common text from their own discipline’s perspective. This year’s text, Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities, is considered a classic in the fields of architecture and urban planning. Jackson, general editor of the 20-volume Columbia History of Urban Life and editor-in-chief of the 1,373 page-Encyclopedia of New York City, is also the author or co-author of several books on American history, including Silent Cities: The Evolution of the American Cemetery; The Ku Klux Klan in the City; Atlas of American History; Cities in American History; American Vistas; Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States; and Empire City: New York through the Centuries. Crabgrass Frontier won both the Francis Parkman and Bancroft Prizes, and was named a notable book of the year by The New York Times. A strong advocate of history as the core of social studies, Jackson chaired the Bradley Commission on History in Schools (1987-1990), a nationwide effort to improve and expand history teaching in America’s elementary and secondary institutions. He then founded and served as the first chairman of the National Council for History Education, a larger organization with a similar mission. In 1989, Jackson was named teacher of the year by Columbia students, and received the 28th annual Mark Van Doren Award for “humanity, devotion to truth, and inspiring leadership.” In 2001, the New York Council for the Humanities chose him as the state’s Scholar of the Year. For information on this event or the Humanities Symposium, please visit www.loyola.edu/symposium, or call 410-617-2617. | 
