The National Endowment for the Humanities announced on Tuesday that it has named David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, as the 2003 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities. Mr.

A humanities education should focus on language, literature, and the arts, not on history and philosophy, said the Harvard University professor Helen Vendler, who delivered the annual Jefferson ...

For only the second time in its history, the United States has a former president and first lady who are also the parents of a president. So it seemed a good time to hear David McCullough, a Pulitzer ...