David McCullough

American historian and author (1933–2022)

Passing the Declaration of Independence

Here is the very moving reenactment from the 2008 HBO miniseries, "John Adams."

The original 13 colonies were all on the East Coast?

Add this 60 Minutes interview with historian David McCullough to your reading list. Wow. Morley Safer: You, you, calling us [Americans] historically illiterate. David McCullough: Yes. I feel that very…

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Re: Friday Question

My copy of Truman by David McCullough was worn out by the time I finished reading it. I can’t read a good book and not mark it up with ink,…

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Let?s Look At History (and the role of some other folks).

Great leaders do have set backs. I have been thinking about the events of this week, and it is no doubt historical in American Political History. This is not the…

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Re: I’ve been tagged (the One Book Meme Game)

Well, now that I’ve got some time, George, I’ll play along, too: 1. One book that changed my life: The Ultimate Resource 2, by Julian Simon. It made tangible the…

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Tom Shuford Gets It Right

From the News-Topic: Michael Barrick, a former school board member, expertly identifies the layers upon layers of bureaucratic control of public schools in “A key factor to consider in the…

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Another anniversary Sept. 11

A number of other Lockeans and Locker Room readers already have read David McCullough’s 1776 (Simon & Schuster, 2005), so this entry might ring a few bells. As we mark…

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Leadership

It might be rather erroneous to invoke the American Revolution when speaking of modern-day Iraq, but just such a thought occured to me while reading the most recent issue of…

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Pre-Washington Presidents

Troy can correct me if I am wrong, but presidents before the Constitution were members of Congress elected to serve as president of the Congress not an independent executive as…

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Cultural illiteracy — what did we expect?

Tom Shuford, a columnist for EducationNews.org, starts his column today with a quote from one of my favorite historians, David McCullough, on one of my favorite subjects — the importance…