Education:
- B.A., summa cum laude, Harvard University, 1979
- M.A., Stanford University, 1980
- Ph.D., Stanford University, 1986
Career:
- Assistant Professor of History, Boston University, 1986-1991
- Associate Professor of History, Boston University, 1991-1996
- Professor of History, Boston University, 1996-2004
- Director of the American and New England Studies Program, Boston College, 1998-2004
- Professor of History, Boston College, 2004-present
Awards and Honors:
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Stanford University History Department Prize
- Boston University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award
- Boston University Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching
- American Historical Association Jameson Prize
- Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Stuart L. Bernath Prize
- Organization of American Historians Frederick Jackson Turner Award
Selected Publications:
- _Uncle Sam's Plantation: United States-Caribbean Relations Since 1898_ (1999)
- _The Liberal Persuasion: American Politics and the Culture of Reform in the Age of Roosevelt and Kennedy_ (2010)
- _The Kennedys: A Biography_ (2013)
- _The American Republic: A History_ (2020, co-authored with Michael Beschloss and David Kennedy)