{"id":36703,"date":"2015-05-05T10:44:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T14:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=36703"},"modified":"2022-09-28T10:34:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T14:34:23","slug":"the-wright-brothers-and-the-conquest-of-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/05\/05\/the-wright-brothers-and-the-conquest-of-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wright brothers and the conquest of flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They had this passion, this mission; they were obsessed to succeed,&#8221; said historian David McCullough.<\/p>\n<p>But though their plane is proudly displayed at the Smithsonian&#8217;s Air and Space Museum in Washington, historian David McCullough still believes the Wright Brothers are underappreciated:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every time they went up in this motor-driven airplane, they were risking their lives,&#8221; he told Braver. &#8220;This is something that cannot be overemphasized.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, in a new book, &#8220;The Wright Brothers&#8221; (published by CBS&#8217; Simon and Schuster), McCullough \u2014 who has won two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom \u2014\u00a0wants to reintroduce Americans to the Wright Brothers &#8230; and present someone else.<\/p>\n<p>The Wright sister.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the report from &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/the-wright-brothers-and-the-conquest-of-flight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS Sunday Morning<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt &#8220;They had this passion, this mission; they were obsessed to succeed,&#8221; said historian David McCullough. But though their plane is proudly displayed at the Smithsonian&#8217;s Air and Space Museum in Washington, historian David McCullough still believes the Wright Brothers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/05\/05\/the-wright-brothers-and-the-conquest-of-flight\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":8014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4863,2114,715,2118,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanities-and-cultural-studies","category-libraries","category-news","category-special-collections-and-archives","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129856,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36703\/revisions\/129856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}