History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. - David McCullough 1 Share Now -
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 2 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history. - David McCullough 5 Share Now -
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read. - David McCullough 6 Share Now -
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 7 Share Now -