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Arrangement note
Preferred Citation
Biographical/Historical note
Scope and Contents
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
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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
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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.