David McCullough (elected October 1992) died August 7, 2022. Among the best known and most popular authors of U.S. history, McCullough wrote books that range across three centuries of the American past, from John Adams (2001) to Truman (1992)—both recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for biography. He became even better known to broad audiences through his narration of documentaries such as AAS member (elected 1992) Ken 48 Burns’s Civil War. He was a two-time recipient of the National Book Award, for The Path between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal (1977) and Mornings on Horseback (1981), and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2006, among many other honors. McCullough conducted research in the AAS collections for several of his books, and he delivered several public lectures for the Society, including in 2005 to a packed house in the First Baptist Church. On the AAS bicentennial orientation video, he described the Society as “a national treasure house.”
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