Bruce Catton, born in Petoskey ... gained him the astonishing award of a Pulitzer Prize in history for A Stillness at Appomattox. In just a few years, Catton would be chosen to write the seminal ...

No writer appreciates the year's drama more than Bruce Catton, author of A Stillness at Appomattox and nearly a dozen other distinguished popular histories of the Civil War. Catton's latest book ...

Exactly 150 years ago Thursday, the Civil War ended with what historian Bruce Catton would later describe as “A Stillness At Appomattox.” Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at the ...

Bruce Catton. From the 1950s to the 1970s, Catton researched and wrote several books about the Civil War, including the 1954 Pulitzer Prize-winning A Stillness at Appomattox. The Civil War ...

A Stillness at Appomattox won a Pulitzer Prize for history ... with presidents and publishing kings and everyone knows Bruce Catton. Book tours and the whole bit,” said Jerry.

I was 8 years old, living on Long Island, and had already read Bruce Catton’s “A Stillness at Appomattox,” written in 1952. I would go on to read eight more of his books over the years ...

Benzie County high school history students wrote essays for the Bruce Catton Historical Awards, honoring the author who won the 1954 Pulitzer Prize for A Stillness at Appomattox. His memoir, ...

Bruce Catton (October 9, 1899 — August 28, 1978) was a journalist and a notable historian of the American Civil War. He won a Pulitzer Prize for history in 1954 for A Stillness at Appomattox ...