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  • Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives
    Title: David M. Kennedy papers
    creator: Kennedy, David M.
    Identifier/Call Number: SC1115
    Physical Description: 60.5 Linear Feet (42 boxes)
    Date (inclusive): 1914-2010

    Access to Collection

    The materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.

    Publication Rights

    All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94305-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
    Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.

    Arrangement note

    Files are arranged into five series: Personal, Professional & Administrative; Research Files; Teaching; Travel; and Computer Files.

    Preferred Citation

    [identification of item], David M. Kennedy Papers (SC1115). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

    Biographical/Historical note

    David M. Kennedy is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian specializing in American history. Born in Seattle, Kennedy received his A.B. in History from Stanford (1963) and MA (1964) and PhD (1968) from Yale. At Stanford since 1967, Kennedy is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and the Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West.
    Professor Kennedy teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in the history of the twentieth-century United States, American political and social thought, American foreign policy, American literature, and the comparative development of democracy in Europe and America. 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. His 1970 Bancroft Prize-winning 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. Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1980), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, used the history of American involvement in World War I to analyze the American political system, economy, and culture in the early twentieth century. Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War (1999), which won the 2000 Pulitizer Prize, recounts the history of the United States in the two great crises of the Great Depression and World War II. Professor 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 and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

    Scope and Contents

    This collection consists of the professional files of Historian and Stanford Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus David M. Kennedy.
    The Personal, Professional & Administrative series contains files related to Kennedy's activity within the Stanford University History Department, personal and professional correspondence, and his involvement in professional organizations and activities.
    The Research Files series contain notes for publications, as well as drafts of articles and books. Most frequently represented topics include World War I and World War II, as well as general US and European history in the 20th century. Drafts of works in this series include: Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 ; The American Pageant: A History of the Republic ; Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger ; and Over Here: The First World War and American Society.
    The Teaching series consists of various course lecture notes, readers, syllabi, and evaluations prepared for undergraduate and graduate courses taught by Kennedy.
    The Travel series includes Kennedy's files related to conferences and other professional travel.
    The Computer Files series includes various floppy diskettes created or maintained by Kennedy. This series is still in process.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans.
    United States -- History
    Depressions -- 1929.
    Contraception -- History.
    World War, 1914-1918.
    World War, 1939-1945
    Kennedy, David M.
    Sanger, Margaret Higgins.