David McCullough, in full David Gaub McCullough, (born July 7, 1933, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. died August 7, 2022, Hingham, Massachusetts), American historian whose exhaustively researched biographies were both popular and praised by critics. McCullough earned a B.A. (1955) in English literature from Yale University. After graduation he went to New York City, where he took a job at Time-Life’s Sports Illustrated magazine. In 1961 McCullough moved to Washington, D.C., to work for the United States Information Agency. He left that post in 1963 and became an editor for the American Heritage Publishing Co. While there he began work on The Johnstown
In the above Palmetto Scene episode, ETV's Beryl Dakers interviewed David McCullough in 2015. "To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is." - David McCullough
David McCullough was a young researcher at the U.S. Information Agency when he walked into the Library of Congress in 1961 and chanced upon a photography exhibit depicting the 1889 flood in Johnstown.