The American Pageant

Author Biographies

David M. Kennedy is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University. Born and raised in Seattle, he received his undergraduate education at Stanford and did his graduate work at Yale in American Studies, combining the fields of history, economics, and literature. His most recent book, ,Freedom From Fear: the American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000.

Lizabeth Cohen teaches in the history department at Harvard University. Born and raised in the New York metropolitan area, she earned her A.B. from Princeton University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Her book, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (1990) won the Bancroft Prize in American History and the Philip Taft Labor History Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Thomas A. Bailey (1903-1983) taught history at his alma mater, Stanford University, for nearly forty years. Long regarded as one of the nation's premier historians of American diplomacy, he was honored by his colleagues in 1968 with election to the presidencies of both the Organization of American Historians and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He was the author, editor, or co-editor of some twenty-books, but the work in which he took the most pride was The American Pageant through which, he liked to say, he had taught American history to several million students.




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