I only met David McCullough once but we got along swimmingly, I’ll tell you the story.

Arguments about past presidents shape the nation’s present understanding of itself, and hence its unfolding future. In recent years, biographies by nonacademics have rescued some presidents from progr ...

Arguments about past presidents shape the nation’s present understanding of itself, and hence its unfolding future. In recent ...

Arguments about past presidents shape the nation’s present understanding of itself, and hence its unfolding future. In recent ...

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In her new collection of Wall Street Journal columns, Pulitzer Prize-winner Peggy Noonan writes about the history and ...

"On America" is about the foibles ... Long ago I asked the historian David McCullough if he ever wondered about this. He said yes, and the only explanation he could come up with was: "Providence." ...

Whole-class novels just aren’t working: Some students will always be uninterested in a teacher’s choice, and perceive the ...

Tocqueville was critical of the suffrage in America as he wrote ... or to use the words of historian David McCullough, it is “a torch lit by the Founding Fathers.” ...

While Adams is widely credited (or criticized) for the enactment of the alien measures, his biographer David McCullough explains that that “Adams had not asked for or encouraged” the extreme ...