"A Treasury Of American Heritage A Selection of More Than Forty Articles, with illustrations, Taken from the First Five Years of Magazine History" published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 1960. [Provenance: J.E.B. Stuart, IV].

Dust jacket with original un-clipped price of $15.00 on the front flap [some wear, soiling, edge damages]; hard boards with golden eagle on the front board, blue cloth spine [some edge wear]; gilt lettering on spine, 8.1/2" x 11.1/4"; the ex-libris of J.E.B. Suart IV inside front cover; 400 pages on glossy paper, fully illustrated, very good condition.

"This book provides an unparalleled over-all view of the mainstream of our history. The arrangement is chronological; the wilderness blooms into the great republic, and the story is carried on into the convulsions and crises of the twentieth century."

J.E.B. Stuart, IV-- Colonel James Ewell Brown Stuart (1935-2020) was the great-grandson of the Confederate Major General J.E.B. Stuart (1833-1864), the master cavalryman known especially for his reconnaissance missions during the Civil War.

In 1958, J.E.B. Stuart IV was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army through ROTC and served a period of 27 years until his retirement from the Army in early 1985. Awards and decorations include the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star Medal with oak leaf cluster, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Army Meritorious Service Medal with oak leaf cluster, and the Army Commendation Medal. Foreign decorations include the Vietnamese Honor Medal 1st Class and the Vietnamese Air Medal.

American Heritage is a magazine dedicated to covering the history of the United States for a mainstream readership. Each issue is an eclectic collection of articles on the people, places, and events from the entire history of the United States. American Heritage is "a magazine addressed to a lay audience and thus it has the usual fixtures—columns, picture stories, and so forth—and a variety of topics, some of greater consequence than others..." (Richard Snow, the magazine's editor)

From 1947 to 1949 the American Association for State and Local History published a house organ, American Heritage: A Journal of Community History. In September 1949, AASLH launched the magazine with broader scope for the general public, but keeping certain features geared to educators and historical societies.

In 1954, AASLH sold the magazine to a quartet of writers and editors from Time, Inc. including James Parton, Oliver Jensen, Joseph J. Thorndike and founding editor Bruce Catton, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Civil War. They formed the American Heritage Publishing Company and introduced the hardcover, 120-page advertising-free "magazine" with Volume 6, Number 1 in December 1954. Though, in essence, an entirely new magazine, the publishers kept the volume numbering because the previous incarnation had been indexed in the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature.

Bruce Catton remained with the magazine for 25 years until his death in 1979 and published over 100 essays. He warned historians against "regarding the past so fondly we are unable to get it in proper focus, and we see virtues that were not there."

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