Awards & Winners

David M. Kennedy

Date of Birth 22-July-1941
Place of Birth Seattle
(King County, United States of America, Washington, Area code 206, Salish Sea Marine Sanctuary)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as David Kennedy, David Michael Kennedy
Profession Historian, Professor, Author
David Michael Kennedy is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning historian specializing in American history. He is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus at Stanford University and the Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West. 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. He is also the current editor of the Oxford History of United States series. This position was held previously by C. Vann Woodward. Earlier in his career, Kennedy won the Bancroft Prize for his Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for World War I, Over Here: The First World War and American Society. He won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for History for Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945.

Awards by David M. Kennedy

Check all the awards nominated and won by David M. Kennedy.

2000


Pulitzer Prize for History
Honored for : Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
Ambassador Book Award for American Studies
Honored for : Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for History Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945

1981


Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for History Over Here: The First World War and American Society

1971


Bancroft Prize
Honored for : Birth Control in America