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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

The Mystery Of Time, June 1960 | Vol. 11, No. 4
Grant At Shiloh, February 1960 | Vol. 11, No. 2
Surprised and almost overwhelmed, he stubbornly refused to admit defeat. His cool conduct saved his army and his job
Andersonville was merely the worst of a bad lot; North and South alike, they were more lethal than shot and shell
Who Is Superior?, August 1959 | Vol. 10, No. 5
Montgomery Meigs, like many other vengeful Northerners, fell into an old error: he was convinced of his own innate superiority over a large segment of fellow citizens.
A World Of Wonder, April 1959 | Vol. 10, No. 3
Mariner’s Quest, April 1959 | Vol. 10, No. 3
Voyage To Nowhere, April 1959 | Vol. 10, No. 3
Baseball’s rules and rituals are much as they were fifty years ago and anything to win still goes.
The Gold Rush, February 1959 | Vol. 10, No. 2
Lost World, February 1959 | Vol. 10, No. 2
The Corps is supposed to be tough, and is. This often confounds its enemies and sometimes irritates the nation’s other services