david mccullough the pulitzer prize winning author

And then to find that it’s all here at one university, one college!”ĭr. “… Then I got into the incredible magnitude and importance of the Northwest Territory - the size of it the richness of it the incredible new lift of spirits it gave to the country just knowing that was out there, particularly to those veterans and I began to find out about people like Joseph Barker and, reading some of these diaries and memoirs, I thought, ‘Whoa, this is really great material and a great American story.’ I’m very pumped up about this. “And that’s when I got hooked on Manasseh Cutler,” McCullough said. The focus of his talk was on three men affiliated with Yale College: Ezra Stiles, who was the president of Yale during the Revolutionary War John Trumbull, the renowned Revolutionary War painter who donated works to Yale and Manasseh Cutler.

McCullough first became interested in Cutler when he was asked to speak at Yale University’s conclusion to its seven-year Yale Tomorrow fundraising campaign.

He has also been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. McCullough won Pulitzer Prizes for his books, Truman and John Adams, and won National Book Awards for The Path Between the Seas and Mornings on Horseback. Manasseh Cutler, one of the original shareholders of the Ohio Company, which settled the Northwest Territory after the American Revolutionary War. The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author visited with members of Marietta College’s History Department and Legacy Library recently to announce his latest project, which will heavily rely on the library’s Special Collections.

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David mccullough the pulitzer prize winning author