Stanford resident Dr. David M. Kennedy is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus, the former Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West, and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Reflecting his training in American Studies, combining work in history, literature, and economics, his scholarship is notable for its integration of economic and cultural analysis with social and political history and has been awarded with the Bancroft Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for History. At Stanford, he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses as well as innumerable alumni programs in the political, diplomatic, intellectual, and social history of the US and in American literature.
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