42-621: American Heritage may refer to: American Heritage (magazine) The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language American Heritage Rivers American Heritage School (disambiguation) See also [ edit ] National Register of Historic Places in the US World Heritage Site American Heritage Girls Topics referred to by
84-556: A fact anything that might obscure those figures illuminated by the high noon of Demos...." As an example, he cites Catton's dismissal of stories related to Grant's alcohol consumption during the Civil War and places Catton "in Parson Weems land where all our presidents were good and some were great and none ever served out his term without visibly growing in office." On August 16, 1925, Catton married Hazel H. Cherry. During 1926, they had
126-734: A freelance reporter), the Boston American (1920–1924), and the Cleveland The Plain Dealer (1925). From 1926 to 1941, he worked for the Newspaper Enterprise Association, a Scripps-Howard syndicate), for which he wrote editorials and book reviews, as well as serving as a Washington, D.C. correspondent. Catton tried twice to complete his studies, but found himself repeatedly distracted by his newspaper work. Oberlin College awarded him an honorary degree in 1956. At
168-714: A narrative that discussed the military and political aspects of the war. In Two Roads to Sumter (1963), written with his son William, Catton recounted the 15 years prior to the war, as considered from the points of view of the two main politicians involved in the conflict: Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis . In Gettysburg: The Final Fury (1974), Catton offered a slim volume concerning the Battle of Gettysburg , dominated by photographs and illustrations. In addition to Civil War histories, Catton published other books, including The War Lords Of Washington (1948), an account of Washington, D.C., during World War II, based on his experiences in
210-538: A son, William Bruce Catton, who taught history at Princeton University and at Middlebury College , Vermont, where he was the first Charles A. Dana Professor of History. Bruce Catton died in a hospital near his summer home at Frankfort, Michigan, after a respiratory illness. He was buried in Benzonia Township Cemetery in Benzie County , Michigan. During 1977, the year before his death, Catton received
252-495: A special 70th Anniversary issue on "What Makes America Great" (Winter 2020) and an issue on the history of gun control with essays by historian Joseph J. Ellis , law professor Adam Winkler , and gun rights advocate Robert A. Levy . Some historians have criticized the magazine for what they say is a lack of seriousness. Reviewing David McCullough's book on John Adams in The New Republic , Sean Wilentz stated that during
294-679: A study of the final campaign of the war in Virginia and third book in his Army of the Potomac trilogy. Charles Bruce Catton was born in Petoskey, Michigan , to George R. and Adela M. (Patten) Catton, and raised in Benzonia, Michigan . His father was a Congregationalist minister , who accepted a teaching position in Benzonia Academy and later became the academy's headmaster. As a boy, Catton first heard
336-667: Is a near-magic power of imagination in Catton's work that seemed to project him physically into the battlefields, along the dusty roads and to the campfires of another age. The Bruce Catton Collection is housed in the Archives of The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina. Since 1984, the Bruce Catton Prize was awarded for lifetime achievement in the writing of history. In cooperation with American Heritage Publishing Company ,
378-486: Is a near-magic power of imagination in Catton’s work [that] almost seemed to project him physically onto the battlefields, along the dusty roads and to the campfires of another age." American writer Gore Vidal criticized Catton for a hagiographic approach to writing about prominent Americans of the past, calling him "that ubiquitous clone of Parson Weems ." Vidal groups Catton with American historians who "never accept as
420-462: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages American Heritage (magazine) American Heritage is a magazine dedicated to covering the history of the United States for a mainstream readership. Until 2007, the magazine was published by Forbes . Since that time, Edwin S. Grosvenor has been its editor and publisher. Print publication
462-453: Is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies. In the early 1950s, Catton published three books known collectively as the Army of the Potomac trilogy, a history of that army. For Mr. Lincoln's Army (1951), the first volume, Catton recounted the army's formation, the command of George B. McClellan ,
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#1732855237883504-535: Is the former editor of the fine arts magazine, Portfolio . Grosvenor was also the editor of the literary magazine, Current Books , and magazines for Marriott and Hyatt Hotels . He was also the CEO of KnowledgeMax, Inc., an online bookseller. After suspending print publication in 2013, the magazine relaunched digitally in 2017 with a new website and subscriber management system. For a magazine that has lasted seven decades, its way of covering history has changed much over
546-547: The American Association for State and Local History published a house organ , American Heritage: A Journal of Community History . In September 1949, AASLH launched the magazine with broader scope for the general public, but keeping certain features geared to educators and historical societies. In 1954, AASLH sold the magazine to a quartet of writers and editors from Time, Inc. including James Parton, Oliver Jensen, Joseph J. Thorndike and founding editor Bruce Catton ,
588-596: The Peninsula Campaign , the Northern Virginia Campaign , and the Battle of Antietam . For the second volume, Glory Road (1952), Catton recounted the army's history with new commanding generals, from the Battle of Fredericksburg to the Battle of Gettysburg . For his final volume of the trilogy, A Stillness at Appomattox (1953), Catton recounted the campaigns of Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia from 1864 to
630-589: The Presidential Medal of Freedom , the nation's greatest civilian honor, from President Gerald R. Ford , who noted that the author and historian "made us hear the sounds of battle and cherish peace." Of the many Civil War historians, Catton was arguably the most prolific and popular. Oliver Jensen, who succeeded him as editor of the magazine American Heritage , wrote: No one ever wrote American history with more easy grace, beauty and emotional power, or greater understanding of its meaning, than Bruce Catton. There
672-463: The 1950s, " [Bernard] DeVoto 's style of seriousness [was] eclipsed by the more journalistic and sentimentally descriptive style of American Heritage , whose influence is everywhere." Wilentz claimed that McCullough and film maker Ken Burns followed the American Heritage style: "popular history as passive nostalgic spectacle" marching "under the banner of 'narrative ' ". The magazine's editor at
714-509: The American Heritage Publishing Company in 1969. Samuel P. Reed acquired the magazine in 1978. By 1980, costs made the hardcover version prohibitive for a regular subscription. Subscribers could choose the new regular newsstand high-quality softcover or the "Collector's Edition", even plusher and thicker than the previous hardcover. Each is usually about 80 pages and has more "relevant" features and shorter articles than in
756-410: The Civil War (1960), Catton wrote the accompanying narrative to a book that included more than 800 paintings and period photographs (this book was republished without pictures in 2004 by Mariner Books as The Civil War , with an introduction by James M. McPherson ). It received a special Pulitzer Prize citation during 1961. In The American Heritage Short History of the Civil War (1960), Catton offers
798-534: The Civil War throughout his career. In U. S. Grant and the American Military Tradition (1954), Catton writes what many consider one of the best short biographies of the general. In Banners at Shenandoah: A Story of Sheridan's Fighting Cavalry (1955), Catton wrote for young people about Union cavalry commander Philip Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley during 1864. This Hallowed Ground (1956)
840-754: The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Civil War . They formed the American Heritage Publishing Company and introduced the hardcover, 120-page advertising-free "magazine" with Volume 6, Number 1 in December 1954. Though, in essence, an entirely new magazine, the publishers kept the volume numbering because the previous incarnation had been indexed in the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature . Each year begins in December and continues through
882-848: The War (1960), a long poem, was published in 1960. It was set to music by Alec Wilder. In a review of Catton's memoir, Waiting for the Morning Train , New York Times writer Webster Schott wrote, looking back over Catton's career, that "As much as anyone who has ever written about the Civil War, Bruce Catton made it real. Catton not only told us how and why it happened, he made us feel it. He brought to his writing an extraordinary combination of scholarship, literary skill and intimate concern." Oliver Jensen, who succeeded Catton as editor of American Heritage , wrote that "No one ever wrote American history with more easy grace, beauty and emotional power, or greater understanding of its meaning, than Bruce Catton... There
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#1732855237883924-688: The early 1960s, American Heritage sponsored a series of popular military board games produced by the Milton Bradley Company . Beginning in 1973, and presumably as part of the then-current national lead-up to the Bicentennial , American Heritage teamed up with producer David L. Wolper for a series of four hour-long television specials (broadcast every few months between late 1973 and early 1975) based on events and people in American history, in documentary-like filmed dramatizations with actors taking
966-529: The early years, but the scope and direction and purpose had not changed. Forbes bought the magazine in 1986. On May 17, 2007, the magazine, published on a bimonthly basis, announced that it had stopped publication, at least temporarily, with the April/May 2007 issue." On October 27, 2007, Edwin S. Grosvenor , purchased the magazine from Forbes for $ 500,000 in cash and $ 10 million in subscription liabilities. Grosvenor, who serves as president and editor-in-chief,
1008-660: The end of the war during 1865. It was his first commercially successful work and it won both the Pulitzer Prize for History and a National Book Award for Nonfiction . The three volumes were reissued in 1984 as a single volume reprint, titled Bruce Catton's Civil War . From 1961 to 1965, the Centennial of the Civil War was commemorated, and Catton published his Centennial History of the Civil War trilogy. Unlike his previous trilogy, these books emphasized not only military topics, but social, economic, and political topics as well. For
1050-547: The federal government, Four Days: The Historical Record Of The Death Of President Kennedy (1964), a 144-page collaboration of the American Heritage magazine and United Press International on the John F. Kennedy assassination , and Waiting for the Morning Train (1972), about the author's Michigan boyhood. Toward the end of his life, Catton published Michigan: A Bicentennial History (1976) and The Bold & Magnificent Dream: America's Founding Years, 1492–1815 (1978). Names from
1092-490: The first volume, The Coming Fury (1961), Catton discussed the causes of the war, culminating in its first major combat operation, the First Battle of Bull Run . For the second volume, Terrible Swift Sword (1963), he discussed both sides as they mobilize for a massive war effort. The story continued through 1862, ending with McClellan's dismissal after the Battle of Antietam . For the third volume, Never Call Retreat (1965),
1134-651: The following October, published every other month. For example, Volume XXV issues are December 1973, February 1974, April 1974, June 1974, August 1974, and October 1974. December 1974 begins Volume XXVI. Bruce Catton remained with the magazine for 25 years until his death in 1979 and published over 100 essays. He warned historians against "regarding the past so fondly we are unable to get it in proper focus, and we see virtues that were not there.” In 1964, David McCullough began his writing career as an editor and writer for American Heritage , which he sometimes calls "my graduate school". McCullough wrote numerous articles for
1176-474: The historian Samuel Eliot Morison . It had the goal of annually honoring an American author whose work shows "that good history is literature as well as high scholarship." The first award was presented on September 28, 1977, by Henry A. Kissinger at the Pierpont Morgan Library , valued at $ 5,000. It ran for two years. Bruce Catton Charles Bruce Catton (October 9, 1899 – August 28, 1978)
1218-525: The increasing experience of Grant as a military commander, from victories at the Battle of Fort Henry and the Battle of Fort Donelson , to the Battle of Shiloh and the Vicksburg Campaign . In Grant Takes Command (1969), Catton discussed Grant's career from the Battle of Chattanooga (1863) through the 1864 Virginia campaigns against Robert E. Lee and the end of the war. In addition to these three important trilogies, Catton wrote extensively about
1260-537: The magazine. He turned his article for the June 1966 issue on the Johnstown Flood , Run for Your Lives , into a full-length book titled, The Johnstown Flood . When it became an unexpected bestseller, McCullough left the magazine in 1968 to commit full-time to writing. Later American Heritage articles by McCullough on the transcontinental railroad and Harry Truman also became bestselling books. McGraw-Hill purchased
1302-424: The reminiscences of the aged veterans who had fought in the Civil War. In his memoir, Waiting for the Morning Train (1972), Catton explained how their stories made a lasting impression upon him: [These stories gave] a color and a tone not merely to our village life, but to the concept of life with which we grew up ... I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it
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1344-491: The roles of historic figures, and key events re-enacted. The specials, sponsored by Texaco , were narrated by actor Cliff Robertson and broadcast on ABC . American Heritage has been the finalist or winner of several National Magazine Awards , especially between 1985 and 1993: In 1976, the American Heritage Publishing Company founded and sponsored an award called the Samuel Eliot Morison Award, named for
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1428-567: The start of World War II , Catton was too old for military service. During 1941, he accepted a position as Director of Information for the War Production Board , and later he had similar jobs in the Department of Commerce and the Department of the Interior . His experiences as a federal employee prepared him to write his first book, The War Lords Of Washington , during 1948. Although the book
1470-665: The time, Richard Snow , replied that "this magazine has never taken an overly sentimentalized or simplistic view of the past" and that American Heritage is "a magazine addressed to a lay audience and thus it has the usual fixtures—columns, picture stories, and so forth—and a variety of topics, some of greater consequence than others... but that it publishes many historians "whose work nobody has ever called simplistic, or sentimental, or undemanding. Numerous articles in American Heritage have later been expanded into bestselling books, including: In addition to running four to six articles, American Heritage' s regular features include During
1512-548: The war continued through the battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg , and the bloody struggles of 1864 and 1865 before the final surrender. After the publication of Captain Sam Grant (1950) by historian and biographer Lloyd Lewis, Catton wrote the second and third volumes of this trilogy, making extensive use of Lewis's historical research, provided by his widow, Kathryn Lewis, who personally selected Catton to continue her husband's work. In Grant Moves South (1960), Catton discussed
1554-411: The years. Each issue is still an eclectic collection of articles on the people, places, and events from the entire history of the United States. Today, there is mention of television shows and Web sites, and a greater diversity of articles such as Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates ' recent article, "Growing Up Colored," about life as a young boy in segregated West Virginia. Recent content has included
1596-609: Was an American historian and journalist, known best for his books concerning the American Civil War . Known as a narrative historian, Catton specialized in popular history , featuring interesting characters and historical vignettes, in addition to the basic facts, dates, and analyses. His books were researched well and included footnotes. He won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1954 for his book A Stillness at Appomattox (1953),
1638-578: Was an account of the war from the Union perspective. Upon its publication, it was widely considered the best single volume history of the Civil War, receiving a Fletcher Pratt Award from the Civil War Round Table of New York during 1957. In America Goes to War (1958), Catton made the case that the American Civil War was one of the first total wars . In The American Heritage Picture History of
1680-450: Was not a commercial success, it inspired Catton to quit federal employment to become a full-time author. In 1954, Catton accepted the position as founding editor of the new magazine American Heritage . Catton served initially as a writer, reviewer, and editor. In the first issue, he wrote: We intend to deal with that great, unfinished and illogically inspiring story of the American people doing, being and becoming. Our American heritage
1722-477: Was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do. During 1916, Catton began attending Oberlin College , but he quit because of World War I without completing a degree. After serving briefly with the United States Navy during World War I, Catton became a reporter and editor for the newspapers The Cleveland News (as
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1764-457: Was suspended early in 2013, but the magazine relaunched in digital format with the Summer 2017 issue after a Kickstarter campaign raised $ 31,203 from 587 backers. The 70th Anniversary issue of the magazine (Winter 2020) on the subject "What Makes America Great?" includes essays by such historians as Fergus Bordewich , Douglas Brinkley , Joseph Ellis , and David S. Reynolds . From 1947 to 1949
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