David McCullough wrote the essay on Harry Truman for the book Character Above All, published earlier this year by Simon & Schuster. He also appears on the PBS television program adapted from the book.

In a commencement speech in 2012, high school teacher David McCullough Jr. told students "you are not special." He is now expanding the advice in a new book, "You Are ...

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Correspondent Lee Cowan talks with AEP's co-founder, David McCullough III, and with students who have crossed the boundaries of blue states and red states to find the grey areas of common ground.

The Allied invasion of Italy in September 1943 led to quick battlefield success–but Hitler’s forces would stand their ground.

In this week's "It's Debatable" segment, Rick Rosen and Charles Moster debate if the federal government could enact one major ...

Meet Sara Holbrook, the writer who couldn't answer test questions about her own work. Back in 2017 ... her poem (though Common Core architect David Coleman would argue that doing so was both ...

David G. Savage has covered the Supreme Court ... In addition to writing about the court’s work, he has written on the legal battles that have raged in Washington. He joined The Times in 1981 ...

Davis McCullough is called the "citizen chronicler" by Librarian of Congress James Billington. His books have led a renaissance of interest in Portrait of David McCulloughAmerican history, from ...

Your talents, your vitality, your ideas and idealism, and your proven capacity for hard work are all greatly needed. Prize honesty and common sense. And remember that common sense has never been ...