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The best commencement address yet to be delivered: “Students Don’t Know Much About History”

June 15, 2012

In an interview conducted by Brian Bolduc , featured in the Wall Street Journal (June 18, 2011), the award-winning historian, David McCullough, says textbooks have become “so politically correct as to be comic.” Meanwhile, the likes of Thomas Edison get little attention.…

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Don’t Know Much About History: David McCullough on “historical illiteracy”

July 9, 2011

Here is a sequence of brief excerpts from an interview of David McCullough by Brian Bolduc, featured in The Wall Street Journal (June 18, 2011). To read the complete interview, please click here. *     *     * The popular historian David…

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