David Edward Stannard (born 1941) was born to Florence E. Harwood Stannard and David L. Stannard, a businessman. He worked as a branch manager for Time Inc. from 1963 to 1968. In 1966 he married Valerie M. Nice. The couple have two sons. Stannard graduated magna cum laude from San Francisco State College in 1971. He then went to Yale and obtained a master's degree in philosophy in 1973 and a Ph.D. in 1975. He is a member of the American Historical Association and enjoys doing research. As a writer and professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Hawaii, he has contributed several articles to periodicals on American culture. His Shrinking History, published in 1980, was chosen by Psychology Today as one of the 'best books of the year'.1
Stannard is the longtime partner of Haunani-Kay Trask. [1]
References
1http://michaelroth.tripod.com/bio166.htm
External links and Further Reading
Works
- American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World
- Before the Horror: The Population of Hawaii on the Eve of Western Contact
- Honor Killing: How the Infamous "Massie Affair" Transformed Hawaii
- Shrinking History: On Freud and the Failure of Psychohistory

