Thomas Kessner
Thomas Kessner is an American historian, a Distinguished Professor at City University of New York, and an author.
Education
Kessner is a graduate of Brooklyn College and earned his doctorate at Columbia University in 1975 with distinction.Career
He was appointed as distinguished professor at Graduate Center of [the City University of New York] in 2005. His special areas of interest are American urban and social history and the history of New York City.He has served as a consultant to the New [York City Board of Education], the Ellis Island Museum, the New-York Historical Society, the Museum of the [City of New York], and many other scholarly and professional institutions. He was also an associate editor for The [Encyclopedia of New York City] and has directed more than half a dozen NEH summer seminars for college and high school teachers.
Selected works
Books
- The Flight of the Century: Charles A. Lindbergh and the Rise of American Aviation
- Capital City: New York City and the Men Behind America’s Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860–1900
- Fiorello H. LaGuardia and the Making of Modern New York
- The Golden Door, a study of immigrant life and economic mobility in New York City.
- ''Today's Immigrants, Their Stories: A New Look at the Newest Americans''
Articles
- "The New Deal", ''Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History''
Awards