Elizabeth Blackmar
{{Short description|American historian and author}}
Elizabeth Blackmar is an American historian, author, and professor who specializes in the social history of the American economy and infrastructure. Blackmar is known for her book The Park and the People: A History of Central Park co-written with Roy Rosenzweig.{{Cite news|last=Martin|first=Douglas|date=1997-01-31|title=A Village Dies, A Park Is Born|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/31/arts/a-village-dies-a-park-is-born.html|access-date=2022-02-02|issn=0362-4331}} She is the Mary and David Boies Professor of American History at Columbia University.
Early life and education
Blackmar received a B.A. from Smith College in 1972 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1981.{{Cite web|date=2016-06-16|title=Blackmar, Elizabeth S.|url=https://history.columbia.edu/person/elizabeth-s-blackmar/|access-date=2022-02-02|website=Department of History - Columbia University|language=en-US}}
Career
Blackmar specializes in urban and social history.{{Cite web|title=Made in America: Viewing our Built Environments as Primary Documents with Elizabeth Blackmar|url=https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2014/07/28/made-america-viewing-our-built-environments-primary-documents-elizabeth|access-date=2022-02-02|website=The New York Public Library}}{{Cite web|title=Landmark Guide to the History of Central Park {{!}} PRIOR|url=https://priorworld.com/editorial/curiosities-and-histories-of-central-park/|access-date=2022-02-02|website=priorworld.com}}
In 2011, Blackmar was recognized by the American Historical Association with its Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award.{{Cite web|title= Awards, Prizes, and Honors Conferred at the 126th Annual Meeting |url=https://www.historians.org/perspectives-article/awards-prizes-and-honors-conferred-at-the-126th-annual-meeting-february-2012/}} The prize committee noted that "from the evidence submitted in the supporting letters, it was clear that Dr. Blackmar set [a] tone of friendship, openness, and trust from the very beginning of the relationship. Even when students were being firmly guided and directed, she was able to do it in a way that never felt intrusive to them. And that ability to approach her advising, based on empathy and openness, laid the foundation not only for effective and enduring mentoring but for lifelong connections."
In 2012–2013, Blackmar was a fellow at the Cullman Center.{{Cite web|title=The New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Announces 2012-2013 Fellows|url=https://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/2011/04/07/new-york-public-librarys-dorothy-and-lewis-b-cullman-center-scholars-|access-date=2022-02-02|website=www.nypl.org}}
= Bibliography =
- Manhattan for Rent, 1785-1850{{Cite book|last=Blackmar|first=Elizabeth|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18741278|title=Manhattan for rent, 1785-1850|date=1989|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=0-8014-2024-5|location=Ithaca|oclc=18741278}}
- The Park and the People: A History of Central Park, with Roy Rosenzweig{{Cite book |last1=Rosenzweig |first1=Roy | author-link1=Roy Rosenzweig | last2=Blackmar |first2=Elizabeth |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25367745|title=The park and the people : a history of Central Park|date=1992|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=0-8014-2516-6|location=Ithaca, N.Y.|oclc=25367745}}
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Category:20th-century American historians
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