David M. Kennedy
Historian, Author
1941 –
Who is David M. Kennedy?
David Michael Kennedy is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning historian specializing in American history. He is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus at Stanford University and the Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West. Professor Kennedy's scholarship is notable for its integration of economic analysis and cultural analysis with social history and political history.
Kennedy is responsible for the recent editions of the popular history textbook The American Pageant. He is also the current editor of the Oxford History of United States series. This position was held previously by C. Vann Woodward. Earlier in his career, Kennedy won the Bancroft Prize for his Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for World War I, Over Here: The First World War and American Society. He won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for History for Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945.
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- Born
- Jul 22, 1941
Seattle - Also known as
- David Kennedy
- David Michael Kennedy
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, Yale University
American studies
( - 1968) - Master of Arts, Yale University
American studies
( - 1964) - Bachelor of Arts, Stanford University
History
( - 1963)
- PhD, Yale University
- Employment
- Stanford University
(1967 - )
- Stanford University
- Lived in
- Stanford
(1967 - )
- Stanford
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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