David M. Kennedy (historian)
David Michael Kennedy ( born July 22, 1941 in Seattle, Washington) is an American historian. He is a professor at Stanford University.
Biography
In 1963, he graduated from Stanford University with a BA Diploma. At Yale University, he obtained a Master and later a doctorate. He teaches since 1967 at Stanford University, since 1993 when Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History. He is also a director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
As a historian, he has specialized in American history. For his work he received numerous awards, including the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for history for his work Freedom From Fear.
Works
- Social Thought in America and Europe, together with A. Robinson, (1970 )
- Progressivism: The Critical Issues, (1971 )
- The American People in the Depression (1973 )
- The American People in the Age of Kennedy ( 1973)
- The American Pageant: A History of the Republic, along with Thomas A. Bailey and Lizabeth Cohen ( first edition 1979), 13th edition (2006).
- Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1980). The book was 1981 Pulitzer Prize finalist.
- Power and Responsibility: Case Studies in American Leadership, along with Michael Parrish (1986 )
- The American Spirit: United States History as Seen by Contemporaries, along with Thomas A. Bailey ( 1983)
- Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (1999). 2000 this book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Francis Parkman Prize, the Ambassador 's Prize and the California Gold Medal for Literature.