Mar. 27, 2003

Messenger of Historical Literacy Visits the Circuit

SAN FRANCISCO - During a small luncheon gathering last week at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, historian David McCullough bemoaned the lack of understanding of America's past among students by pointing to a recent test that showed most college seniors did not know to which American the British general Charles Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown in 1781.