David McCullough: History and the American Spirit 

The kind of man that makes me so very glad I am a reader......... Thanks for all the many,many hours of enjoyment reading your books.......

Thank you for uploading this...I've watched every David McCullough video there is...."His Voice Helps Me Sleep..." - God Bless Him

Why do this man's books feel so honest? He explains near the beginning: He discovers his theme after, not before, his research and analysis.

"There is no such thing as a foreseeable future." Best quote of the speech, from an historian who knows more deeply than most how the past is filled with improbable, unforeseeable moments

Education is the unifying factor, history is essential for leadership, great statemanship and teacher. 'Blessed memory' always David McCollough.

I have a History major and I graduated from the College of Education at Minnesota (Twin-Cities). I was fortunate to have Mrs. Meyers in fourth grade, Mrs. Bashara in seventh grade, Miss Palm in eighth grade, Mr. Mohr in tenth grade, and Prof. Starling Price when in college, Prof. Knapp in graduate school!

"If you can get the reader, the student into the *humanity* of the person...it's in the letters that Harry Truman wrote to Bess or Abigail to John Adams. That's when you really get inside the humanity of it."

GOD BLESS DAVID MCCULLOUGH

During the question - answer session, an "Informed librarian" repeated the oft repeated falsehood woman of Jefferson's time had no vote. 1800, several places single women had full voting rights. By 1807, those rights were lost because of what no place had: the secret ballot.

"When in the course of human events, the operative word there is HUMAN."

a sad loss. Mr McCullough died 7 Aug this year

As an undergrad, I came into the study of American history a fan of Jefferson and by the end of it I was in the Washington/Adams camp. Jefferson was sort of the Che Guevara of his day (not the nastier side of the guy, but the constant revolutionary type). I liked that he had a healthy fear of federal power but as Mr. McCullough points out, Jefferson had that good enough for me but not for thee side to him and he did a lot of his dirty work in the political arena through operatives because he hated direct confrontation. That's to be expected I guess, especially given the times, but he never owned any of it and it was left to Adams to make the first move to restoring peace between them. Adams was vain and quick-tempered but he was without a doubt the hardest working of the founders and he had a strong sense of justice. He also understood people better than Jefferson. The Alien and Sedition Acts submarined his presidency but he never really had the temperament for the job anyway. RIP John Adams. I'm sorry to say your greatest fear seems to be coming to fruition as we are showing ourselves to be unworthy of all you sacrificed for.

"He knew this had to be rectified and so this document was created that would eventually take us out of Egypt."

So sorry to hear we lost Mr McCullough this year. He was indeed a charmer and inspired many Americans to know more about our history by virtue of his own personal delight in knowing and communicating that history to the rest of us. I miss him and am grateful for the many talks and lectures that are available to us through RU-vid that will keep him alive for us for years to come.

"For all Americans, including Native Americans, people of African descent, and women who didnt get to vote until 1920."

"Cutler got thru the Congess." "There would be complete freedom of Religion. There would be public support for Public Education..and No Slavery." "A minister of the church in Hamilton...and No Slavery was saved by one vote."

And don't ever leave the WOMEN out." "And their part was not only identifiable but invaluable always." "THE NATURAL SUPERIORITY OF WOMEN" 🙂

“The American Spirit”? WTF is that?! Serious critical historians don’t use such phrases. Only court historians do. But only court historians write bestsellers about American presidents. Doris Kearns Goodwin. David Beschloss. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr..

What the Margaret’s think of the education system today?

Hey David...... our stupid teachers wrecked the U.S.

Fiction.

Dead And burried last year And there's another demon in hell