Experts
David Kennedy
Professor of History, Stanford University
Kennedy recalls a hillside in Sardinia. Read More
A million people voted for Andrew Jackson in 1828. Read More
Updating international institutions for the 21st century. Read More
The end of traditional warfare. Read More
Iraq, Iraq and Iraq. Read More
David M. Kennedy, history professor at Stanford University, talks about the importance of lifting the bottom billion out of poverty. Read More
War, Kennedy says, should always be the last resort. Read More
America used to take the lead in creating a latticework of institutions. Read More
They'd be reasonably proud of the fact that we have maintained a large and robust civil society, but they’d be of two minds about the role the United States plays in the world at large. Read More
The peculiar relationship between political and civil societies. Read More
To trace a common lineage, Kennedy says. Read More
Life on this earth, David Kennedy says, is a veil of tears. Read More
Blum, Woodward, Potter. Read More
It's easy to assume the past is irrelevant. Read More
Changing the equation in the student's favor. Read More
Kennedy talks about injecting new issues into the debate. Read More
We fought a very different war than every other belligerent country. Read More
Understanding a country of 300 million. Read More
A departure from the triumphalist account. Read More
A people without a collective memory is a people without a collective identity. Read More
About David Kennedy
David M. Kennedy is the Donald J. McLachian Professor of History at Stanford University. His scholarship is notable for its integration of economic analysis with social history and political history. Kennedy has written over ten books; his first, Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger (1970), won the John Gilmary Shea Prize in 1970 and the Bancroft Prize in 1971. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1980) and won the Pulitzer in 2000 for his 1999 book Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. Other awards include the Francis Parkman Prize, the Ambassador's Prize and the California Gold Medal for Literature, all of which he received in the year 2000. Kennedy was educated at Stanford and Yale. The author of many articles, he has also penned a textbook, The American Pageant: A History of the Republic, now in its thirteenth edition. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.