NEW YORK – A collection of essays by the late David McCullough, including some never published before, will be released this fall. “History Matters” is scheduled for Sept. 16, Simon & Schuster ...

In this posthumous collection of thought-provoking essays--many never published before--Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and bestselling author David McCullough affirms the value of history, how we ...

This week in history: two trailblazing 19th-century female doctors, the Fifteenth Amendment, and the long-neglected groundhog.

When Mississippi opened the first state-sponsored civil rights museum in the country four years ago, The New York Times praised it as an institution that “refuses to sugarcoat history.” Now historians ...

“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 ...

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 ...