JEFFREY BROWN: You know, it's interesting to me that -- that, having looked and written so much about the political development of our country, here you are focusing on the cultural development. Was that a conscious thing for you, that you wanted to -- you wanted -- that interested you...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH: Yes, very much so.
I have felt for a very long time that history is more than politics and the military and social issues. Yes, it is politics and the military and social issues, but it's also art and music and architecture and ideas and science and medicine. It's the works. It's human.
And I think that the more that we teach history that way, the more we think about history that way, the more we realize that's obviously true. There are some ancient civilizations, all we know about them is their art. So, what may stand down the next several hundred years may be more George Gershwin than it is some senator of the moment.
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