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For the politician, see David M. Kennedy. David M. Kennedy is a historian specializing in American history. He is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University. Professor 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. Earlier in his career won the Bancroft Prize for his Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger (1970) and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for World War I, Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1980). He won the Pulitzer for Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (1999). Born in Seattle, Kennedy was educated at Stanford and Yale. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and, according to the jacket copy of The American Pageant, is married and the father of two sons and a daughter.
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