Kennedy, that explains his reasons for writing the original edition as well as his opinions on the legacy of Wilsonian idealism, most recently reflected in President George W. This 25th anniversary edition includes a new afterword from Pulitzer Prize-winning author David M. Over Here is the single-most comprehensive discussion of the impact of World War I on American society. It also left a residue of disruption and disillusion that spawned an even more ruinous conflict scarcely a generation later.

He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.The Great War of 1914-1918 confronted the United States with one of the most wrenching crises in the nation's history. He has served on the Advisory Board for the PBS series The American Experience, and as a director of Environmental Traveling Companions, a service organization for people with disabilities. Freedom From Fear won the Pulitzer Prize, the Francis Parkman Prize, the English-Speaking Union's Ambassador's Prize, and the Commonwealth Club of California's Gold Medal for Literature.Ī frequent contributor to The Atlantic Monthly and The New York Times, Kennedy has also appeared on PBS's The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, and in numerous documentary films, including The Great War, Woodrow Wilson, and The American Century, as well as in numerous C-Span, Fox News, and National Public Radio productions. He is currently working on a book entitled The Americans, an examination of the distinctive features of the American historical experience.īirth Control in America was honored with both the John Gilmary Shea Prize and the Bancroft Prize. Kennedy is also the co-author of a best-selling textbook in American history, The American Pageant, now in its twelfth edition. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War vividly recounts the nation's encounter with the two great crises of the Great Depression and World War II. Over Here: The First World War and American Society used the history of American's involvement in World War I to analyze American culture in the early twentieth century. His 1970 book, Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger explored the medical, legal, political, and religious dimensions of the subject and helped to pioneer the emerging field of women's history. Kennedy has written about a broad range of subjects in American history.

Over Here by David M. Kennedy