Montague, MA – Brian David McCullough, 70, died at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, Massachusetts, on December 2, 2025, from complications of pancreatic cancer. He had been living in Montague ...

One of the greatest weeks of my life was the week David McCullough came to teach a one-credit course at Hillsdale College in 2006. McCullough, the great writer and teacher of history, held forth on ...

David McCullough is one of our country’s most decorated historians, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Over the course of his distinguished ...

“How lucky we are, how very lucky we are, to live in this great country, to be Americans — Americans all,” concludes the first chapter in History Matters, the posthumous collection of writings and ...

Any book carrying the name of David McCullough usually weighs three pounds less than a horse. His first biography, “Truman,” ran to 1,120 pages; his second, “John Adams,” weighed in at 751 pages. Both ...

The Senator John Heinz History Center has acquired the archives of one of the nation’s most beloved historians, Pittsburgh native David McCullough. “There would be no Heinz History Center without ...

When Sherman Smith entered Deland McCullough’s life, he became his lifelong friend, role model and father figure. The two football pros had many parallels in their careers, but neither of them had any ...

The late Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough told an audience in 2012 that writing history was like working on a detective case. "And once on the case, you want to know more and more and ...

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Sometimes the title of a book says it all. And that’s the case with a just-released collection of essays by the late, great David McCullough: “History Matters.” In the book’s first two sentences, ...