Bruce Catton

<p>At Gettysburg 50 years after the battle, it was no longer blue and gray. In 1913, a kind of union prevailed.</p>

<p><span class="deck">A FAMOUS HISTORIAN RECALLS THE COUNTRY WHERE HE GREW UP</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> SECOND OF FOUR INSTALLMENTS</span></p>
<p>A FAMOUS HISTORIAN RECALLS THE COUNTRY WHERE HE GREW UP </p>

<p><span class="deck"> THIRD OF FOUR INSTALLMENTS A FAMOUS HISTORIAN RECALLS THE COUNTRY WHERE HE GREW UP </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A FAMOUS HISTORIAN RECALLS THE COUNTRY WHERE HE GREW UP</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Like the nation it covers, <em><span class="typestyle"> American Heritage</span></em> was revolutionary at its birth. And, like that nation’s story, ours is a real cliffhanger. </span></p>

<p>Reflections on the superb historian and <em>American Heritage</em> editor</p>

<p>We celebrate one of America's greatest historians with an anthology of his writing.</p>

<p>The founding editor of <em>American Heritage</em> was the preeminent Civil War historian of the last century, and taught generations of writers how to write narrative history.</p>