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	Presentation by Kennedy on Freedom from Fear, June 5, 1999, C-SPAN
	Booknotes interview with Kennedy on Freedom from Fear, June 20, 1999, C-SPAN

David Kennedy
David Kennedy
Born	David Michael Kennedy; July 22, 1941 (age 83); Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Spouse	Judith Osborne (m. 1970; died 2023)
Children	3
Awards	Pulitzer Prize (2000)
Academic background
Education	Stanford University (BA); Yale University (MA, PhD);
Thesis	Birth Control (1968)
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	American history
Institutions	Stanford University
Doctoral students	Elizabeth Borgwardt; Elizabeth Cobbs; John McGreevy;
Notable students	Josh Hawley
Notable works	Freedom from Fear (1999)

David Michael Kennedy (born July 22, 1941) is an American historian specializing in American history. He is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus at Stanford University^[2] and the former director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West. 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 (since 1999) of the Oxford History of the United States series. This position was held previously by C. Vann Woodward. Earlier in his career, Kennedy won the Bancroft Prize for his first book Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger (1970), and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his book World War I, Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1980). He was the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History from 1995 to 1996. He won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for History for Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 (1999).^[3]

Biography

Kennedy married Judith (Judy) Ann Osborne in 1970, and they remained together until her death on June 5, 2023. They have three children.^[4]

Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger (1970)
- John Gilmary Shea Prize, 1970
- Bancroft Prize, 1971
Social Thought in America and Europe, co-editor with Paul A. Robinson (1970)
Progressivism: The Critical Issues, editor (1971)
The American People in the Depression (1973)
The American People in the Age of Kennedy (West Haven: Pendulum Press, 1973)
The American Pageant: A History of the Republic, co-author with Thomas A. Bailey and Lizabeth Cohen (1979; 14th ed. 2010).
Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1980)
- Pulitzer Prize Finalist, 1981
Power and Responsibility: Case Studies in American Leadership, co-editor with Michael Parrish (1986)
The American Spirit: United States History as Seen by Contemporaries, co-editor with Thomas A. Bailey (1983)
Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 (1999) (Vol. 9 in The Oxford History of the United States)

^ Cobbs Hoffman, Elizabeth (1997). "Diplomatic History and the Meaning of Life: Toward a Global American History". Diplomatic History. 21 (4): 499–518. doi:10.1111/1467-7709.00086. ISSN 1467-7709.
^ "David M. Kennedy". Stanford University. Archived from the original on May 7, 2013. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
^ "The 2000 Pulitzer Prize Winners: History". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved January 16, 2011.
^ "Judy Kennedy, August 4, 1942-June 5, 2023". Palo Alto Online. Retrieved September 5, 2023.
^ "David Michael Kennedy". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved October 18, 2021.
^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved October 18, 2021.

Academic offices
Preceded by Robert Dallek	Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History 1995	Succeeded by Robert Middlekauff
Awards
Preceded by Dan T. Carter	Bancroft Prize 1971 With: Erik Barnouw and Joseph Frazier Wall	Succeeded by Carl Neumann Degler
Preceded by Charles Coleman Sellers		Succeeded by Robert Middlekauff
Preceded by Gordon S. Wood		Succeeded by Samuel Eliot Morison
Preceded by Edward Ball	Ambassador Book Award for American Studies 2000	Succeeded by Nathaniel Philbrick
Preceded by Edwin G. Burrows	Pulitzer Prize for History 2000	Succeeded by Joseph Ellis
Preceded by Mike Wallace	Pulitzer Prize for History 2000	Succeeded by Joseph Ellis