David M. KennedySpeaker and Booking Agent Information

In 2003 he will deliver the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Oxford.Kennedy has written about a broad range of subjects in American history. His 1970 book Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger explored the medical legal political and religious dimensions of the subject and helped to pioneer the emerging field of women's history.

Over Here: The First World War and American Society used the history of American's involvement in World War I to analyze American culture in the early twentieth century. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War vividly recounts the nation's encounter with the two great crises of the Great Depression and World War II.

Kennedy is also the co-author of a best-selling textbook in American history The American Pageant now in its twelfth edition. He is currently working on a book entitled The Americans an examination of the distinctive features of the American historical experience.