In 1954 this Civil War historian was named editor of American Heritage magazine
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Bruce Catton | American History Lives at American Heritage  Notes about the famous historian and American Heritage editor ... His effective storytelling and narrative style still influences the magazine. ... The veterans made it a living thing, Catton recalled privately in 1954, which, in my ... Catton almost always wrote about the Civil War with a sense of the epic, and of ..... First Name: *.
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Bruce Catton (1954) - Wikipedia  Charles Bruce Catton (October 9, 1899  August 28, 1978) was an American historian and journalist, best known for his books on the American Civil War. .... In The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War (1960), Catton wrote the ... It is named for Bruce Catton, prizewinning historian and first editor of American...
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Bruce Catton | American History Lives at American Heritage  Bruce Catton (1899  1978) was the Founding Editor of American Heritage and arguably the most prolific and popular of all Civil War historians. ... 167 articles for the magazine, and won a Pulitzer Prize for history in 1954 for A Stillness at ... Two-thirds of Americans could not correctly name Yorktown as the last major military...
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Golden Anniversary | American History Lives at American Heritage  The definitive American history publication since 1954 now offers its entire archive free ... Its editor, Mary E. Cunningham of the New York State Historical Association, .... Parton hired a promotional copywriter named Frank Johnson, who found the ... Sears, who later became a celebrated Civil War historian in his own right,...
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American Heritage (magazine) - Wikipedia  American Heritage was a quarterly magazine dedicated to covering the history of the United ... and introduced the hardcover, 120-page advertising-free "magazine" with Volume 6, Number 1 in December 1954. ... The founding editor was Civil War historian Bruce Catton, who remained with the magazine for many years.
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The Civil War (TV series) - Wikipedia  The Civil War is a 1990 American television documentary miniseries created by Ken Burns ... A side portion of the 1991 VHS box set of nine volumes ... and Frederick Douglass, as well as diaries by Mary Chesnut, Sam Watkins, Elisha Hunt Rhodes and ..... By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
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Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895 - Documenting the American South  About | Collections | Authors | Titles | Subjects | Geographic | K-12 ... Douglass's public life ranged from his work as an abolitionist in the early 1840s to ... black newspaper of the mid-19th century, called successively The North Star ... Douglass is one of the South's most famous examples of the region's mixed racial heritage.
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Back to the Land of Roots - Cairn.info  Back to the Land of RootsAfrican American Tourism and the Cultural Heritage of ... In the late 1960s, the African American journalist and novelist Alex Haley ... Immediately after the publication of Roots, the new institution took up the task of ..... country, whose record of human rights violations has dramatically increased after...
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The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote  Reviews, Discussion ...  ... had such interesting anecdotes to tell during Ken Burns's documentary series The Civil War. ..... I like the author's style, relating the events from the viewpoint of both the Southern .... I read a ton of books on the subject - this 3 volume series is, I think, my ... I first discovered shelby foote while watching ken burns' civil war.
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Wartime Anthropology, Nationalism, and Race in Margaret Mead's ...  ... applied anthropology in which Mead engaged during the war, she also published a highly popular study of the American character titled And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America (New York: William Morrow, 1942).
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William Lloyd Garrison | American editor, writer, and abolitionist ...  Jul 8, 2015 ... William Lloyd Garrison, (born December 10, 1805, Newburyport, Massachusetts, ... journalistic crusader who published a newspaper, The Liberator (183165), and ... known as the most uncompromising of American antislavery journals. ... In December 1865 he published the last issue of The Liberator and...
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Alexander Gardner - Civil War Academy - American Civil War  He took the first battlefield pictures of the Civil War at Antietam. ... Alexander Gardner and Matthew Brady did end up working together and in 1858 ... the Civil War broke out in 1861 Gardner offered his photography services to the thousands ... He took one of the last known photographs of President Lincoln on February 5th...
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The 100 Outstanding Journalists in the United States in the Last 100 ...  Christiane Amanpour: long-time and distinguished international reporter for ... the D-Day landings and the Spanish Civil War; Capa became an American ... television journalist of his time as the anchor of the CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981. .... Neil Sheehan: covered Vietnam for UPI, obtained the Pentagon Papers in...
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Biography in Context - Document - Gale  Jul 1, 2015 ... Consultant on black history to Friends of the Children of Mississippi, 1967. ... late 1960s, long before her Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 book The Color Purple ... After The Color Purple she confronted the practice of female genital .... at Jackson State College and then in 1970 moved to Tougaloo State College.
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Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895 - Documenting the American South  He was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, in Talbot County, on ... Douglass's public life ranged from his work as an abolitionist in the early 1840s to his ... black newspaper of the mid-19th century, called successively The North Star ... D.C., where he edited the newspaper The New National Era and became...
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Mary Chesnut: A Diary From Dixie by Mary Boykin Chesnut ...  Published March 25th 1997 by Gramercy (first published 1905) ..... on daily life and famous personalities gives a realism to her story that is still captivating. ..... point of view of the wife of Confederate General James Chesnut, Jr., Mary Chesnut. ... an account of the war from inside the circles of the Confederate's presidency.
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Book Reviews - JStor  Book Reviews. Guardian of Heritage: Essays on the History of the National Archives, ... Led by John Franklin Jameson, the movement to establish an archives pro- gressed in ... to be a stumbling block was the precise place where the archives building was to be ... not to store only the most important records, but was to serv.
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Frederick Jackson Turner - Wikipedia  Frederick Jackson Turner (November 14, 1861  March 14, 1932) was an American historian in ... His The Frontier in American History (1920) was a collection of older essays. ... a scholarly paper in 1893, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History", read before .... Wikisource has original works written by or about:
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"TEN WHO MAKE A DIFFERENCE: 2008 National Humanities ...  Boritt's first book pushed the field of Lincoln studies in a new direction. ... where he championed waterway and railroad improvements, to the White House, Boriti ... Boritt has since written, cowritten, or edited sixteen books on the Civil War and ... The Changing Faces of an American Icon, The Gettysburg Nobody Knows, and...
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Alex Haley - Author, Journalist - Biography.com  May 10, 2016 ... Discover the life and achievements of Alex Haley, creator of Roots and ... Author, Journalist (19211992) ... At the time of his birth, Haley's father, Simon, a World War I veteran, ... Upon Will's death, Haley's parents returned to Tennessee where ... After one year at Alcorn, he transferred to Elizabeth City State...
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Mary Chestnut - American Civil War - HISTORY.com  Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, (1823-1886) was the author of A Diary from Dixie, ... But A Diary from Dixie was not published until 1905, long after her death. ... for its perceptive views of Confederate military and political leaders and for its insight ... Get the Inside HISTORY newsletter for in-depth historical articles and videos.