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Bruce Catton

Bruce Catton (1899 – 1978) was the Founding Editor of American Heritage and arguably the most prolific and popular of all Civil War historians. He wrote an astonishing 167 articles for American Heritage, and won a Pulitzer Prize for history in 1954 for A Stillness at Appomattox, his study of the final campaign of the war in Virginia.

Catton received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, from President Gerald Ford, in 1977, the year before his death.

Articles by this Author

DRED SCOTT v. SANFORD
To Union Colonel Charles S. Wainwright, Lincoln was a weak President, Grant an uninspired commander, Lee a slippery foe. His outspoken diary, never published before, memorably describes the Civil War’s final year
Cross-country touring was difficult, half a century ago, but if you could make it, you really had an adventure
In the summer of 1914 the nations were at peace and the future seemed serene. Then the guns spoke, and things would never again be the same
The Other Hill, February 1962 | Vol. 13, No. 2
Lest We Forget…, August 1961 | Vol. 12, No. 5
Moment Of Dawn, April 1961 | Vol. 12, No. 3
End Of The Road, April 1961 | Vol. 12, No. 3
A New Horizon?, April 1961 | Vol. 12, No. 3
Pioneers At Sea, December 1961 | Vol. 13, No. 1