Dr. David M. Kennedy got his Ph.D. from Yale University. He is the Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West’s co-director and the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus at Stanford University. The Bancroft Prize and the John Gilmary Shea Prize were awarded to his first ebook, BIRTH CONTROL IN AMERICA: THE CAREER OF MARGARET SANGER.

He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in American political, diplomatic, intellectual, and social history, as well as American literature, at Stanford, where he has won numerous teaching awards.

Dr. Kennedy won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for his book FREEDOM FROM FEAR: THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN DEPRESSION AND WAR, 1929 – 1945, which was published in the OXFORD HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.