“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 ...

Mr. James T. McCullough, 75, of Milford MA and formerly of Framingham MA died Thursday (November 6, 2025) at the Milford Regional Medical Center after an illness. He was the beloved husband of Anne C.

The Senator John Heinz History Center has acquired the archives of one of the nation’s most beloved historians, Pittsburgh native David McCullough. “There would be no Heinz History Center without ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — KFOR-TV has been named one of nine recipients of the 2025 Walter Cronkite Awards. The honor recognizes “outstanding political journalism on television and digital media that ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - November 4, 1916. Walter Cronkite is born in St. Joseph, Missouri. At age 20, Cronkite was hired to broadcast news and sports at KCMO Radio. His on-air name was Walter Wilcox ...

Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–81). During the heyday of CBS ...

Has anyone noticed that news stories have gotten shorter and pithier over the past few decades, sometimes seeming like summaries of what you used to peruse? In spite of that, huge numbers of people ...

Indeed, in 2017, the Las Vegas Raiders running back coach learned his longtime mentor and former college coach Sherman Smith had a special connection: They were biological father and son. “He opened ...

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 ...

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Sometimes the title of a book says it all. And that’s the case with a just-released collection of essays by the late, great David McCullough: “History Matters.” In the book’s first two sentences, ...

Next year, America will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a semiquincentennial to be marked by festivities and public reflections aimed at paying ...