MY FAVORITE INTERVIEW WAS WITH HISTORY AUTHOR DAVID MCCULLOUGH. NOW, YOU PROBABLY KNOW ABOUT DAVID MCCULLOUGH. HE WAS THE VOICEOVER VOICE IN SIX OF KEN BURNS’S DOCUMENTARIES, INCLUDING THE CIVIL ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

In a room of stacked books, author Gioia Diliberto sat down with $7.95 sandwiches and bottled wine at The Book Cellar to talk ...

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

You might say it is a work in progress, or to use the words of historian David McCullough, it is “a torch lit by the Founding Fathers.” The current generation of voters must carry that torch ...

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." That is where my mind settles ...

Towles chalked it up to men being “out of the habit” of reading fiction, explaining, “We know statistically that men are less ...

It was a neck-snapping flashback to my college government and history courses in which the ... his biographer David McCullough explains that that “Adams had not asked for or encouraged ...