Podcast Episodes featuring David McCullough

David McCullough, Stephen Ambrose and David Herbert Donald: Time Travelers

What It Takes® - October 19, 2020 07:05 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 913 ratings
The best-known biographies of Presidents Lincoln, Adams, Eisenhower, Truman, Nixon were written by the three great historians featured here. They talk about their subjects as if they had gone back in time and arrived back, breathless, with stories to share about the people they met.  Each one ex...

Amanpour: Malcolm Gladwell, Nick Broomfield and David McCullough

Amanpour - June 28, 2019 23:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 475 ratings
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the "Revisionist History" podcast and one of the leading thinkers in the world today, joins Christiane Amanpour to talk inequality in education and the fallibility of memory. Nick Broomfield, director of "Marianne & Leonard", opens up about his film-making and the compli...

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American History Tellers - May 22, 2019 07:05 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 17.3K ratings
Pulitzer Prize winner. National Book Award winner. Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient. Today David McCullough, one of America’s greatest living historians, joins us to discuss his new book, The Pioneers, about the heroic men and women who shaped the Northwest Territories, in presen...

David McCullough on the Pioneers Who Defined America

Kickass News - Afar - May 20, 2019 08:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough discusses his latest book The Pioneers, how it fulfilled his lifelong dream to write a nonfiction version of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, and why he wants his book to serve as reminder of fundamental American values.  He tells the story of the Ne...

David McCullough

Q&A - May 19, 2019 04:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 245 ratings
Historian David McCullough discusses his latest book, [The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West].

Show 1878 David McCullough The Wright Brothers

American Conservative University - July 26, 2017 11:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 1.7K ratings
Show 1878 David McCullough  The Wright Brothers To watch the video of this presentation visit- https://youtu.be/UBcjkuOdytQ An evening with Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author and MHS Fellow David McCullough. Following a reception you are invited to sit back and listen a...

The Wright Brothers: An Interview With David McCullough

Stuff You Missed in History Class - May 13, 2015 15:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 22.6K ratings
David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, talks about his research and discoveries about the Wright brothers, their extreme determination, their family, and the many, many people who played parts in their great success as innovators. Read the show notes here. Learn more about yo...

More with David McCullough

Stuff You Missed in History Class - August 08, 2011 18:02 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 22.6K ratings
In the second portion of their interview with author David McCullough, Sarah and Deblina, focus specifically on their favorite parts of his new book "The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris." Tune in to learn more about McCullough's research process. Learn more about your ad-choices at https:/...

An Interview with David McCullough

Stuff You Missed in History Class - May 25, 2011 21:10 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 22.6K ratings
In this episode, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough discusses his book "The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris," which follows the experiences of American expats in the French capital. Tune in to learn more about McCullough's work. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.i...