David Kennedy

Interdisciplinary Humanities Center & Department of History present

David Kennedy
"A Tale of Three Cities: How the United States Won World War II"

Thursday, March 1 / 8 P.M. / FREE
1910 Buchanan Hall

Pulitzer-Prize winning historian, David Kennedy, will deliver a lecture entitled, "A Tale of Three Cities: How the United States Won World War II" at 8 P.M. on Thursday, March 1 in 1910 Buchanan Hall. Courtesy of the UCSB Bookstore, copies of his most recent book, "Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945," will be available for purchase and signing at this event.

The United States did not simply win World War II -- it was triumphantly, surpassingly victorious. Victory did not "just happen." Rather, a series of crucial wartime decisions both determined the American way of war and shaped the world we have lived in ever since.

David M. Kennedy is Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University. He is the author of "Over Here: The First World War and American Society," which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, "Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger," which won a Bancroft Prize and "Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945" which won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for History and was named a 1999 Outstanding Academic Book by "Choice."

Courtesy of the UCSB Bookstore, "Freedom from Fear" will be available for purchase and signing at this event.

This event is cosponsored by the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, UCSB Department of History, Cold War History Group, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, and UCSB Bookstore.