We are raising a generation of young Americans who are, to a very large degree, historically illiterate. It's not their faults. There's… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read." ( The Course of Human Events , NEH… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“If you haven't met Kenny (Young) you have not seen how the spirit of Boston can be embodied by one single man.” — David McCullough Copy Share Image
To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“It might never have happened. That’s among the most important lessons of history . . . and of life. There is so much around us… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
History is not just about dates and quotations. And it's not just about politics, the military and social issues, though much of… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
History is about life. It's awful when the life is squeezed out of it and there's no flavor left, no uncertainties, no… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“The study of history is an antidote to the hubris of the present – the idea that everything we have, everything we… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Housetops were covered with 'gazers'; all wharves that offered a view were jammed with people ... As British officers happily reminded one… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
There are people who are trying to write history for the general reader who can be quite tedious. That said, I do… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Steamboats by this time were becoming a familiar presence on the rivers and coastal waters of America, but not until 1838 did steam-powered ships… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Even mighty states and kingdoms are not exempted. If we look into history, we shall find some nations rising from contemptible beginnings and spreading… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Only TR openly declared his love for the job. “Nobody ever enjoyed the presidency as I did,” he boasted, and by all evidence that… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“s ships Phoenix and Rose, in the company of three tenders, cast off their moorings at Staten Island and started up the harbor under… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“a people may let a King fall, yet still remain a people, but if a King let his people slip from him, he is… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“He worked at a plain, tall desk at which he wrote standing up or perched on a high stool,” — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Nothing happens in isolation. Everything that happens has consequences. We” — David McCullough Copy Share Image
