Background

Kennedy, Lawrence William was born on August 4, 1952 in Riverside, California, United States. Son of Paul James and Eileen Lawlor Kennedy.

Education

AB, Boston College, 1975. AM, Boston College, 1978. Doctor of Philosophy, Boston College, 1987.

Career

Teacher history, St. Sebastian's Country Day School, Newton, Massachusetts, 1975-1976;teacher history, Boston College H.S., Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1976-1985;chair history department, Boston College H.S., Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1983-1985;lecturer in history, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, 1987-1992;consulting historian, Boston Redevelopment authority, Boston, 1987-1992;assistant professor of history, U. Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1992-1998;associate professor of history, U. Scranton, Pennsylvania, since 1998. Lecturer Tufts U., Medford, Ma., 1987, U. Massachusetts, Boston, 1992.

Works

Works Gallery

• book

  • Boston: A Topographical History, Third Enlarged Edition

    ( This urbane and delightful book covering more than 300...)

  • Planning the City upon a Hill: Boston since 1630

    (The focus of this study is on the changing role of local ...)

  • Planning the City upon a Hill: Boston since 1630 by Kennedy, Lawrence (1994) Paperback

• Other Work

  • Author: Planning the City upon a Hill. Boston since 1630, 1994, (with Walter Muir Whitehill) Boston: A Topographical History, 2000.

Membership

Board trustees Lackawanna History Society. Treasurer, committee member Troop 201 Boy Scouts American, Clark's Summit, Pennsylvania, 1993-1997. Member Friends of the AbingtonCmty.

Library., Clark's Summit, since 1993. Member American Catholic History Association, Organisation American Historians, Urban History Association, Southern of Histors of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, New England History Association.

Connections

Married Judith Ann McCarthy, May 18, 1974. Children: Patrick Lawrence, Paul Robert.

father:

Paul James

mother:

Eileen Lawlor Kennedy

spouse:

Judith Ann McCarthy

children:

Patrick Lawrence Kennedy

Paul Robert Kennedy