David M. Kennedy Biography

David M. Kennedy the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University is a native of Seattle and a 1963 Stanford graduate. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1968. A renowned teacher he has been honored with the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching and has three times been selected by graduating Stanford seniors as Class Day Speaker. He has taught American history at the University of Florence Italy and has lectured on American history in Germany Finland Denmark Turkey Canada Australia and Ireland. In 1995-1996 he served as the Harmsworth Professor of American history at Oxford University. 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.

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