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As a visiting professor on the Hill in the \u201980s, the eminent historian greatly influenced the way I look at the world<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Karl Johnson \u201989, MS \u201900, PhD \u201910<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shortly after graduating from Cornell, I served for a single day as a substitute history teacher. Delving into the details of the Civil War, I organized the lesson around a theme. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no such thing as the past,\u201d I said. \u201cThere is only someone else\u2019s present.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those words were not my own, but rather the refrain of the last history class I took at Cornell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The visiting professor who held court twice weekly in Goldwin Smith Hall was the late David McCullough<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"Karl<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAmericans in Profile\u201d was at once captivating and unconventional, and largely for the same reason\u2014the syllabus consisted primarily of biographical sketches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although he later won Pulitzer Prizes for his biographies of Harry Truman and John Adams, McCullough\u2014who passed away a few months ago, in August 2022\u2014did not start out as a biographer. He did not even start out as a historian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unable to find a satisfying book about the Johnstown Flood, which took place near his native Pittsburgh, he set out \u201cto write the book I wanted to read.\u201d He wrote in the evenings while working a full-time day job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked by publishers to follow up with works on the Chicago Fire and San Francisco Earthquake, he resolved rather to focus on great human achievements, which he did with big books on the Brooklyn Bridge and the Panama Canal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Years later, I was reading 1776<\/em> when my children were trying to get my attention. \u201cJust a minute,\u201d I said, \u201cthe war is not quite over, and I\u2019m not sure who is going to win.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This element of suspense was not merely a stylistic achievement. McCullough\u2019s narratives are grounded in a deep conviction regarding the contingency of history. This was personal for him\u2014he had no advanced degrees and so described himself as an \u201caccidental historian.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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McCullough\u2019s narratives are grounded in a deep conviction regarding the contingency of history.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Whether speaking of the presidential elections or the development of jazz, his mantra was always the same: \u201cIt didn\u2019t have to happen this way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While narrating the end of the Cold War for us as it unfolded, he hammered on the role of courage and human decision-making. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This emphasis on human agency endeared him to his students and readers alike, and surely contributed to his turn toward the craft of biography, an emerging interest that was on full display during his brief tenure at Cornell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He treated us to deep dives into the lives of complicated characters ranging from Louis Agassiz and Lena Horne to George Gershwin and the Wyeth family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tellingly, one of McCullough\u2019s favorite quotes\u2014a line from Joseph Addison\u2019s 18th-century play Cato<\/em>\u2014was \u201cWe can\u2019t guarantee success. We can do something better; we can deserve it.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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McCullough at the 2019 National Book Festival. (Shawn Miller \/ Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In other words, he elaborated, \u201cthe outcome of what happens is in the hands of God; it\u2019s out of our hands. But how we behave, how we perform, how we measure up\u2014that\u2019s something we can control. Or to put it another way: if we are in a noble cause, even if that cause is doomed to failure, let\u2019s fail nobly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a friend once asked me if I judged my college education worth the cost, I reflected on the ways that McCullough\u2019s words and wisdom have come back to me over the years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To this day I see the Brooklyn Bridge as he taught us to see it, a \u201cgrand harmony of opposite forces\u2014the steel of the cables in tension, the granite of the towers in compression.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His subtle nudge to be open to the element of surprise in our vocational journeys also proved prescient. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the age of 40, despite not holding any divinity degrees, I became a campus minister through Cornell United Religious Work<\/a>\u2014an \u201caccidental chaplain.\u201d When in 2020 I was asked to officiate at the funeral of President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes, nobody was more surprised than me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When a friend once asked me if I judged my college education worth the cost, I reflected on the ways that McCullough\u2019s words and wisdom have come back to me over the years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

One week after that initial teaching stint, I ran into the person for whom I was substituting. \u201cYou know what the students told me?\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s no such thing as the past. There is only someone else\u2019s present.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although McCollough\u2019s winsome, baritone voice is no longer among us, one can hope that his words and wisdom will echo among his readers and students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, my son is at Cornell amidst what some are now calling the \u201cend of the end<\/a>\u201d of the Cold War\u2014a reminder that the events I experienced as the present are now someone else\u2019s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And as I find myself wondering whether the tuition can be justified, I can hope that he\u2019ll encounter equally inspiring tour guides to the past among the faculty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karl Johnson \u201989, MS \u201900, PhD \u201910,<\/em><\/strong> is the founder and former executive director of Chesterton House, a Christian study center affiliated with Cornell United Religious Work. In his previous role at Cornell Outdoor Education, he designed the Hoffman Challenge Course. He is the proud namesake of the COE yurt on Mt. Pleasant. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Johnson portrait provided.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published January 4, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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