David McCullough, a two-time winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, whose best-selling biographies of Harry Truman and John Adams made him one of America’s most popular and acclaimed historians, died on Sunday at his home in Hingham. He was 89. Mr. McCullough won his Pulitzers for “Truman” (1992) and “John Adams” (2001), and his National Book Awards for “The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914′′ (1977) and “Mornings on Horseback” (1981), about Theodore Roosevelt’s early years. “So many people have been led to believe — often, unfortunately, by the experience of dreary teaching — that ‘history’ and ‘boring’ are synonymous,” Mr. McCullough said in a 2005 Globe interview. “To me, it’s the reverse. The wonderful thing about almost any subject in history is, if you scratch the surface, you find life. It’s all around us.” Read the full story at our link in bio. 📸: David L. Ryan/Globe Staff