History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. -David McCullough History
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is. -David McCullough History
My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America. -David McCullough War
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read. -David McCullough History
You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history. -David McCullough History
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is. -David McCullough Music
