David McCullough, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and longtime resident of West Tisbury, has long been fascinated with mechanical flight. His newest book, to be released Tuesday, tells the story of Wright Brothers, a lesson in self-reliance, perseverance, family values and hard work.

The distinguished historian and West Tisbury resident has earned another prestigious laurel, this time from France. The French Legion d’Honneur is that country's highest civil and military distinction. A ceremony was planned in Boston Monday afternoon.

A dedication of the community program room at the new West Tisbury Free Public Library was held in honor of David and Rosalee McCullough.

Vineyard resident and award-winning author and historian David McCullough was lauded by Suffolk University with an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree during commencement ceremonies at Boston’s Bank of America Pavilion on Sunday, May 19.

David McCullough laughingly calls the pretty little eight-by-10-foot structure in his back yard his “world headquarters.” Naturally, he was keen to pass on the details of its architecture and history.

“This is where I’ve worked since 1972,” he said. “It was built by Alan Miller, an artist with carpentry. He built the Black Dog in Vineyard Haven. He built numerous buildings around the Island, all distinctive.”

Presidential Medal of Freedom Awarded to David McCullough

David McCullough, the prize-winning historian and West Tisbury
resident whose acclaimed works of nonfiction have all been written from
his home off Music street, will receive the prestigious Presidential
Medal of Freedom at a White House ceremony next week.

An August David McCullough Carries Audience Back in Time

By James Kinsella
Gazette Senior Writer

Millions of American minds carry the image: George Washington,
resplendent in uniform, resolute in countenance, gazing steadfastly
ahead, the Stars and Stripes partly unfurled behind him, the boatmen
pushing ice cakes away from the rowboat in which he is standing.

Save the ice cakes, it is an image that is almost totally
inaccurate, historian David McCullough said.

The eminent biographer and historian who is a year-round resident of the Vineyard, won the Pulitzer Prize this week for his biography of John Adams.