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

Background For Crisis, April 1964 | Vol. 15, No. 3

The Turning Point, April 1964 | Vol. 15, No. 3

Reading, Writing, And History, April 1964 | Vol. 15, No. 3

Reading, Writing, And History, February 1964 | Vol. 15, No. 2

Reading, Writing, And History, October 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 6

Finding A Community, October 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 6

The Year Of Change, October 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 6

The Automobile, October 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 6

“old Abe” The Battle Eagle, October 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 6

The (mostly) true legend of a Wisconsin outfit’s mascot who dodged shells, whined about the chow, and became an honored veteran, living a life of ease at state expense

Territorial Experiment, August 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 5

The Unending Task, August 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 5

What The War Meant, August 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 5

Reading, Writing, And History, August 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 5

The American Leviathan, August 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 5

The American Tradition, June 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 4

Reading, Writing, And History, June 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 4

The Call Of Duty, June 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 4

On The Dusty Soil, June 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 4

The Incredible Century, April 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 3

Reading, Writing, And History, April 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 3

Offensive On The Somme, April 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 3

The French Mutiny, April 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 3

To Bleed To Death, April 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 3

Poverty and Cholera, February 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 2

The causes of the cholera epidemic of 1832 were wholly incomprehensible to the people of the time.

The Feel Of The Lash, February 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 2

Numbness On The Heart, February 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 2

Black Pawn On A Field Of Peril, December 1963 | Vol. 15, No. 1

DRED SCOTT v. SANFORD

Heritage Of The War, December 1963 | Vol. 15, No. 1

Reading, Writing, And History, December 1963 | Vol. 15, No. 1

Romantic On The Loose, December 1963 | Vol. 15, No. 1

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