American Heritage is the oldest, most widely known and respected history magazine in the United States. Central to its mission is making top-tier scholarship accessible to a wide range of audiences, proving that history can be lively, interesting, even spell-binding.
For 75 years, the magazine has told the American story with accuracy and authority. American Heritage has always been apolitical and non-partisan, but tells the story of our nation and the people who built it with respect and appreciation.
American Heritage has published most of the leading historians of the last half century including Stephen Ambrose, Michael Beschloss, David Blight, Fergus Bordewich, H. W. Brands, Douglas Brinkley, Ellen Dubois, Susan Eisenhower, Joseph Ellis, Julie Fenster, David Hackett Fischer, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Annette Gordon-Reed, Pauline Maier, Jon Meacham, David McCullough, James McPherson, Peter Onuf, Nathaniel Philbrick, David S. Reynolds, Barbara Tuchman, and Gordon Wood, to name a few.
“American Heritage occupies a special place in publishing,” says Editor-in-Chief Edwin S. Grosvenor. “It is our nation’s shared memory, the place where the insights and observations of our best storytellers have been preserved over the generations.”
Over the years American Heritage has garnered many honors, including the National Magazine Award for General Excellence.