And, as Kenneth T. Jackson, chairman of the history department, put it: "New York is so big.

"We don't want to become the World Trade Center Museum," said Kenneth T. Jackson, director of the society.

"I've been turned away at the gate," said Kenneth T. Jackson, a professor of history at Columbia University.

"Every generation writes its own history," said Kenneth T. Jackson, a historian of New York City.

By the late 1970s, urban decay had spread, as described by Kenneth T. Jackson, historian of suburban development:

As Kenneth T. Jackson, a history professor at Columbia University, put it, the museum was "wandering in the wilderness."

Of course, over 100 years, the notion of basic needs had been redefined, said Kenneth T. Jackson, a professor of history at Columbia University.

"We don't have any rooms that are 40 feet high," said its president, Kenneth T. Jackson.

Kenneth T. Jackson, a historian at Columbia University, dates the declining interest in cemeteries to the 1960's and the end of Sunday driving.

Kenneth T. Jackson, a Columbia professor who has studied the growth of suburbs, said such proposals often raise fears that the community will lose its character.