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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 Turning Point, April 1964 | Vol. 15, No. 3
The Automobile, 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
The Unending Task, August 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 5
The Call Of Duty, June 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 4
On The Dusty Soil, June 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 4
The French Mutiny, April 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 3
To Bleed To Death, April 1963 | Vol. 14, No. 3
The causes of the cholera epidemic of 1832 were wholly incomprehensible to the people of the time.
DRED SCOTT v. SANFORD