{"id":40801,"date":"2016-04-20T11:27:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T15:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=40801"},"modified":"2022-09-28T10:30:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T14:30:13","slug":"famous-wright-brothers-historian-galvanizes-wright-state-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/04\/20\/famous-wright-brothers-historian-galvanizes-wright-state-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Wright brothers historian galvanizes Wright State students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dayton Daily News: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/news\/local\/famous-wright-brothers-historian-galvanizes-wright\/nq7hH\/\">Famous Wright brothers historian galvanizes Wright State students<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nTwo-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough conducted a master class for Wright State University history students this morning. \u201cHistory isn\u2019t just about politics and war. It also involves everything to do with human creativity,\u201d said McCullough, whose latest book, \u201cThe Wright Brothers,\u201d is a New York Times No. 1 bestseller.\u00a0Read the article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/news\/local\/famous-wright-brothers-historian-galvanizes-wright\/nq7hH\/\">Dayton Daily News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydaytondailynews.com\/gallery\/news\/local\/david-mccullough-visits-wright-state-university\/gCbHB\/#all\">Photos of David McCullough&#8217;s visit to Wright State &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dayton Business Journal: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/dayton\/news\/2016\/04\/19\/david-mccullough-talks-wright-brothers-legacy.html\">David McCullough talks Wright brothers legacy<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nDavid McCullough explored the history of the Wright brothers in a master class for Wright State University students Tuesday.\u00a0&#8220;When I started working on my book about them, I didn&#8217;t know anything about them other than they lived in Ohio, ran a bike shop and ran an airplane, but think of how the world has changed because of what they did,&#8221; McCullough told students. &#8220;80 million people a year fly in and out of O&#8217;Hare alone.&#8221;\u00a0Read the article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/dayton\/news\/2016\/04\/19\/david-mccullough-talks-wright-brothers-legacy.html\">Dayton Business Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dayton Daily News: Famous Wright brothers historian galvanizes Wright State students Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough conducted a master class for Wright State University history students this morning. \u201cHistory isn\u2019t just about politics and war. It also involves everything &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2016\/04\/20\/famous-wright-brothers-historian-galvanizes-wright-state-students\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":40802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4863,747,715,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanities-and-cultural-studies","category-liberal-arts","category-news","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40801","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=40801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40803,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40801\/revisions\/40803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}