Over Here was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1981. Bailey and Lizabeth Cohen, Kennedy is also the co-author of a textbook in American history, The American Pageant, now in its seventeenth edition.īirth Control in America was honored with the John Gilmary Shea Prize in 1970 and the Bancroft Prize in 1971. Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (1999) recounts the history of the American people in the two great crises of the Great Depression and World War II. Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1980) used the history of American involvement in World War I to analyze the American political system, economy, and culture in the early twentieth century. His 1970 book, Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger, embraced the medical, legal, political, and religious dimensions of the subject and helped to pioneer the emerging field of women's history. Reflecting his interdisciplinary training in American Studies, which combined the fields of history, literature, and economics, Professor Kennedy's scholarship is notable for its integration of economic and cultural analysis with social and political history, and for its engagement with the question of America’s national character. In 2008 the Yale University Graduate School presented him with its highest honor, the Wilbur Cross Medal. Lyman Award for faculty service, and the Organization of American Historian’s Distinguished Service Award. He has also received the Stanford Alumni Association's Richard W. In 1988 he received the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, and in 2005 the Hoagland Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Graduating seniors have four times elected him as Class Day speaker. Professor Kennedy has long taught both undergraduate and graduate courses in the history of the twentieth-century United States, American political and social thought, American foreign policy, American literature, the comparative development of democracy in Europe and America, and the history of the North American West.

in American Studies from Yale University in 1968. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus, and founder and former Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University, is a native of Seattle and a 1963 Stanford graduate.

Over Here by David M. Kennedy