Samuel F. B. Morse brought home his idea for the telegraph. From all he learned in Paris, Oliver Wendell Holmes exerted a lasting influence on the profession of medicine in the U.S. Writers Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, and painter Mary Cassatt flourished in Paris and returned to profoundly alter American history. Despite trouble learning French, spells of homesickness, and suffering cold winters by the Seine, they spent many of the happiest days of their lives in Paris.
McCullough has twice received the Pulitzer Prize, for Truman and John Adams, and twice received the National Book Award, for The Path Between the Seas and Mornings on Horseback.
Speakers in sequence:
* Esther Foer (Sixth and I)
* Barbara Meade (Politics and Prose)
* David McCullough
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