In those days, thanks to my parents, I also subscribed to the history magazine American Heritage, whose editor was Bruce Catton, while, in my spare time, I feverishly read the Civil War histories ...

I don’t know who the Bruce Catton of the future will be or what he or she (or, yes, in the age of Trump, they) might write, but I do know that there will be no Bull Run, no Gettysburg or ...

In a sense, the five proslavery settlers were casualties not merely of Brown’s bloody-mindedness but also of a law described by historians William and Bruce Catton as possibly “the most ...

From childhood, I think I had some eerie sense of just how bad it could get in America. After all, in junior high and high school, I was riveted by this country’s Civil War. Among all my toy soldiers ...

Congressman McGroarty snapped back that the entire New Deal program “has raised a hell of a lot of false hopes.” Bruce Catton, then an editorial writer for the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), ...

VE Day will be honoured and remembered with dedicated programming across TV, iPlayer, Radio and Sounds marking the 80th ...

She will be joined by Royal correspondent Rhiannon Mills and Sky News Royal events commentator Alastair Bruce. Various street ... In the Yorkshire village of Catton, there will be a vintage ...

It celebrates Key’s important role in shaping, as historians Bruce and William B. Catton once wrote, Americans’ belief “not merely in themselves but also in their future . . . lying just ...

Street parties, concerts and a military flypast are just some of the ways the country is set to mark the 80th anniversary of ...