McCullough, whose acclaimed books include "Truman," "John Adams" and "1776," answers those questions but spends only half a page of "The Wright Brothers" on East Central Indiana, little more than ...

In the last 107 pages of the book there is vindication and recognition of the Wright Brothers here at home, in England, Germany and especially France. It is 1908.

Of the many books being released in this centennial year to mark the Wright Brothers’ achievement, the one that best captures this wonderful all-American chili of a story is James Tobin’s To ...

Now, a new book says most of the work of the partner brothers was actually the effort of just one, Wilbur Wright. In the Prometheus Books volume, Wright Brothers, Wrong Story, author William ...

To fix that, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner David McCullough delved into Wright-related diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks and family correspondence for his new book, The Wright Brothers, due out May 5.

Few Americans have been as justly celebrated as Wilbur and Orville Wright, the two Dayton, Ohio, bicycle makers who made the first powered flight on the sands of Kitty Hawk, N.C., in December 1903 ...

Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, made its way into the history books 119 years ago. ... You can visit the exact spot where the Wright brothers propelled themselves into the history books.

The tallies have been counted: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough’s book on Dayton’s most famous siblings — Wilbur and Orville Wright — has been selected for the next Big Read.

The Franklin Institute, a Philadelphia museum dedicated to the study of science, has long said one of its most impressive holdings — a plane built in 1911 by the Wright brothers — was a gift ...