When I heard the news of historian David McCullough’s death on Aug. 7, I immediately flashed back to reading his book “The Wright Brothers” while vacationing at the Outer Banks this summer.

He indulged his affection for Paris with the 2011 release of "The Greater Journey" and for aviation with the bestseller on The Wright brothers that came out in 2015. David McCullough was a ...

David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning ... "The Greater Journey" and for aviation with a best-seller on the Wright Brothers that came out in 2015. Beyond his books, the handsome, white ...

David McCullough has died ... He wrote about epic figures, from Theodore Roosevelt to the Wright Brothers. McCullough seemed undaunted by his topics; they were fun for him and he made the subjects ...

Historian David McCullough, who died this week at ... or my personal favorite, “The Wright Brothers,” an American story if ever there was one, about two brothers who owned a bicycle shop ...

David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning ... Greater Journey” and for aviation with a best-seller on the Wright Brothers that came out in 2015. Beyond his books, the handsome, white-haired ...

McCullough died Sunday in Hingham, Massachusetts, according to his publisher, Simon & Schuster. He died less than two months after his beloved wife, Rosalee.

“I think because of David a lot of us feel a twin ... and for aviation with a best-seller on the Wright Brothers that came out in 2015. McCullough’s celebrations of the American past also ...