About American Heritage: Since 1954, American Heritage has been telling a tremendous story; "Our beat," as the founding Since 1954, American Heritage has been telling a tremendous story; "Our beat," as the founding editor Bruce Catton wrote in the first issue, "is anything that ever happened in America." The magazine was started by editors who had left Life magazine fired with the conviction that history belongs to the people and not just to scholars, and that pictures are a vital part of it. Throughout its career, American Heritage has used a blend of lively, authoritative prose and wide-ranging illustrations archival photos, rarely seen paintings, a wealth of materials old and new to bring its 320,000 subscribers every aspect of the American past; great men and scoundrels, popular music and high art, our grandest national impulses and, occasionally, our basest.

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