Order of Bruce Catton Books
Bruce Catton (1899-1978) was an American journalist and historian celebrated for his sweeping work on the American Civil War. Among his best-known titles are Mr. Lincoln’s Army, Glory Road, A Stillness at Appomattox, and his Centennial History trilogy, made up of The Coming Fury, Terrible Swift Sword, and Never Call Retreat. Readers and critics alike have praised his vivid, narrative-driven prose and the depth of research behind it, achievements that earned him both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1954. Born in Petoskey, Michigan, Catton passed away in 1978.
He launched his writing career in 1948 with The War Lords of Washington. Below is a list of Bruce Catton’s books in the order they were originally published:
(with E.B. Long)
Publication Order of American Heritage History Books
| # | Title | Year | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  American Heritage History of the Pioneers | 1959 | |
| 2 |  The American Heritage New History of the Civil War | 1960 | |
| 3 |  American Heritage History of World War I | 1964 | |
| 4 |  The American Heritage Book of Great Historic Places | 1973 | |
| 5 |  The American Heritage: Short History Of The Civil War | 1978 | |
| 6 | Bruce Catton's America: Selections From His Greatest Works | 1979 | |
| 7 |  American Heritage History of the United States | 1998 | |
| 8 |  American Heritage History of the Presidents | 2000 | |
| 9 |  American Heritage History of the Great West | 2014 | |
| 10 |  American Heritage History of Young America: 1783-1860 | 2015 | |
| 11 |  American Heritage History of the American People | 2015 | |
| 12 |  American Heritage History of the Indian Wars | 2015 | |
| 13 |  Eyewitness to History: World War II | 2015 | |
| 14 |  American Heritage History of American Business | 2016 | |
| 15 |  American Heritage History of Early America | 2016 | |
| 16 |  American Heritage History of the Presidents Washington to Van Buren | 2016 | |
| 17 |  The Erie Canal | 2016 | |
| 18 |  American Heritage History of the Confident Years: 1866-1914 | 2016 | |
| 19 |  American Heritage History of Mexico | 2017 | |
| 20 |  Southwest Virginia Civil Rights Leader Nannie Berger Hairston: An Oral History | 2025 | |
| 21 |  South Carolina's Matilda Evans: A Medical Pioneer | 2025 |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Publication Order of Army of the Potomac Trilogy Books
Publication Order of Grant Books
Publication Order of Great Lakes Books
| # | Title | Year | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Independent Man: The Life of Senator James Couzens | 1958 | |
| 2 |  The Detroit Riot of 1967 | 1969 | |
| 3 | Detroit: City of Race and Class Violence | 1972 | |
| 4 |  Waiting for the Morning Train | 1972 | |
| 5 |  Call It North Country | 1986 | |
| 6 |  Danny and the Boys: Being Some Legends of Hungry Hollow | 1987 | |
| 7 |  Michigan Voices: Our State’s History in the Words of the People Who Lived It | 1987 | |
| 8 |  Seasons of Grace: A History of the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit | 1990 | |
| 9 |  Cobb Would Have Caught It: The Golden Age of Baseball in Detroit | 1991 | |
| 10 |  John Jacob Astor: Business and Finance in the Early Republic | 1991 | |
| 11 |  Queen of the Lakes | 1994 | |
| 12 |  Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars: The Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933 | 1994 | |
| 13 |  The Northern Lights: Lighthouses of the Upper Great Lakes | 1994 | |
| 14 |  Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit | 1997 | |
| 15 | The Long Winter Ends | 1998 | |
| 16 |  All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement | 1998 | |
| 17 |  Toast of the Town: The Life and Times of Sunnie Wilson | 1998 | |
| 18 |  Father Abraham's Children: Michigan Episodes in the Civil War | 1998 | |
| 19 | Huron: The Seasons of a Great Lake | 1999 | |
| 20 |  A Sailor's Logbook: A Season Aboard Great Lakes Freighters | 1999 | |
| 21 |  "Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights": Michigan, 1948-1968 | 2000 | |
| 22 |  Graveyard of the Lakes | 2000 | |
| 23 |  Great Lakes Journey: A New Look at America's Freshwater Coast | 2000 | |
| 24 |  History of the Finns in Michigan | 2001 | |
| 25 |  Uppermost Canada: The Western District and the Detroit Frontier, 1800-1850 | 2002 | |
| 26 |  Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors | 2002 | |
| 27 |  Michigan's Early Military Forces: A Roster and History of Troops Activated Prior to the American Civil War | 2003 | |
| 28 |  Riding the Roller Coaster: A History of the Chrysler Corporation | 2003 | |
| 29 |  The French Canadians of Michigan: Their Contribution to the Development of the Saginaw Valley and the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840-1914 | 2003 | |
| 30 |  Beyond the Windswept Dunes: The Story of Maritime Michigan | 2003 | |
| 31 |  A Hanging in Detroit: Stephen Gifford Simmons and the Last Execution under Michigan Law | 2003 | |
| 32 |  Roy D. Chapin: The Man Behind the Hudson Motor Car Company | 2003 | |
| 33 |  Angels in the Architecture: A Photographic Elegy to an American Asylum | 2004 | |
| 34 |  Pulling Down the Barn: Memories of a Rural Childhood | 2004 | |
| 35 |  To Keep the South Manitou Light | 2004 | |
| 36 |  "I Hope to Do My Country Service" : The Civil War Letters of John Bennitt, M.D., Surgeon, 19th Michigan Infantry | 2005 | |
| 37 |  The Dodge Brothers: The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy | 2005 | |
| 38 |  Songquest: The Journals of Great Lakes Folklorist Ivan H. Walton | 2005 | |
| 39 |  Under Michigan: The Story of Michigan's Rocks and Fossils | 2005 | |
| 40 |  My Forty Years With Ford | 2006 | |
| 41 |  House of Fields: Memories of a Rural Education | 2006 | |
| 42 |  A Pocketful of Passage | 2007 | |
| 43 |  Detroit on Stage: The Players Club, 1910-2005 | 2007 | |
| 44 |  A Badger Boy in Blue: The Letters of Chauncey H. Cooke | 2007 | |
| 45 |  Life with Mae: A Detroit Family Memoir | 2007 | |
| 46 |  When You Come Home: A Wartime Courtship in Letters 1941-45 | 2007 | |
| 47 |  Who's Jim Hines? | 2008 | |
| 48 |  Storied Independent Automakers: Nash, Hudson, and American Motors | 2009 | |
| 49 |  Maxwell Motor and the Making of the Chrysler Corporation | 2009 | |
| 50 |  The Color of Law: Ernie Goodman, Detroit, and the Struggle for Labor and Civil Rights | 2010 | |
| 51 | Monopoly on Wheels: Henry Ford and the Selden Automobile Patent | 2011 | |
| 52 | Iron Will: Cleveland-Cliffs and the Mining of Iron Ore, 1847-2006 | 2011 | |
| 53 | The Fall and Recapture of Detroit in the War of 1812: In Defense of William Hull | 2011 | |
| 54 |  Lake Superior Profiles : People on the Big Lake | 2012 | |
| 55 |  The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan: People, Law, and Politics | 2012 | |
| 56 |  Among the Enemy: A Michigan Soldier's Civil War Journal | 2013 | |
| 57 |  The Political Activities of Detroit Clubwomen in the 1920s: A Challenge and a Promise | 2013 | |
| 58 |  The Colored Car | 2013 | |
| 59 |  Arsenal of Democracy: The American Automobile Industry in World War II | 2013 | |
| 60 |  "Old Slow Town": Detroit during the Civil War | 2013 | |
| 61 |  Great Girls in Michigan History | 2015 | |
| 62 |  Race, Religion, and the Pulpit: Rev. Robert L. Bradby and the Making of Urban Detroit | 2015 | |
| 63 |  Young Henry Ford: A Picture History of the First Forty Years | 2015 | |
| 64 |  Justus S. Stearns: Michigan Pine King and Kentucky Coal Baron, 1845-1933 | 2015 | |
| 65 |  A Beaver Tale: The Castors of Conners Creek | 2016 | |
| 66 |  Lake Invaders: Invasive Species and the Battle for the Future of the Great Lakes | 2016 | |
| 67 |  Designing Detroit: Wirt Rowland and the Rise of Modern American Architecture | 2017 | |
| 68 |  To the Copper Country: Mihaela's Journey | 2017 | |
| 69 |  Roads to Prosperity: Economic Development Lessons from Midsize Canadian Cities | 2017 | |
| 70 |  Survival and Regeneration: Detroit’s American Indian Community | 2017 | |
| 71 |  Whaleback Ships and the American Steel Barge Company | 2018 | |
| 72 |  Bold Boys in Michigan History | 2018 | |
| 73 |  John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age | 2018 | |
| 74 |  Rosie, A Detroit Herstory | 2018 | |
| 75 |  Greening the Black Urban Regime: The Culture and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit | 2020 | |
| 76 |  What the Chickadee Knows | 2020 | |
| 77 |  A Lincoln Legacy: The History of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan | 2020 | |
| 78 |  I Hope This Reaches You: An American Soldier’s Account of World War I | 2020 |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| # | Title | Year | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The War Lords Of Washington | 1948 | |
| 2 |  Banners at Shenandoah | 1955 | |
| 3 |  America Goes to War | 1958 | |
| 4 | The Penguin Book of the American Civil War | 1960 | |
| 5 |  The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War | 1960 | |
| 6 |  The Civil War | 1960 | |
| 7 |  Gettysburg: The Final Fury | 1963 | |
| 8 |  Two Roads to Sumter | 1963 | |
| 9 | Waiting for the Morning Train | 1972 | |
| 10 |  A Short History of the Civil War | 1976 | |
| 11 |  The Bold and Magnificent Dream | 1978 | |
| 12 |  Reflections on the Civil War | 1981 | |
| 13 |  Bruce Catton's Civil War | 1984 | |
| 14 |  Grant Moves South, 1861-1863 | 1990 | |
| 15 | Waiting For The Morning Train An American Boyhood | 2013 | |
| 16 |  Last Days of the Civil War: The Enormous Silence | 2015 | |
| 17 |  U. S. Grant and the American Military Tradition | 2015 | |
| 18 |  Antietam | 2016 | |
| 19 | The Battle of Gettysburg | 2017 | |
| 20 |  Shiloh | 2017 | |
| 21 |  The Meaning of the Civil War: An Address Delivered at the Chicago Historical Society, April 12, 1961 | 2018 |
Publication Order of States and the Nation Books
| # | Title | Year | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  South Carolina | 1976 | |
| 2 |  Michigan | 1976 | |
| 3 |  Ohio | 1976 | |
| 4 |  New Mexico | 1977 | |
| 5 |  Nevada | 1977 | |
| 6 |  Wyoming | 1977 | |
| 7 |  Missouri | 1977 | |
| 8 |  Montana | 1978 | |
| 9 |  Mississippi | 1979 | |
| 10 |  New York | 1981 | |
| 11 |  Colorado | 1984 | |
| 12 |  Texas | 1984 | |
| 13 |  Kansas | 1984 | |
| 14 |  New Jersey | 1984 | |
| 15 |  West Virginia | 1984 | |
| 16 |  Rhode Island | 1986 | |
| 17 |  Minnesota | 2000 |
Publication Order of The Centennial History of the Civil War Books
Publication Order of Wordsworth Military Library Books
| # | Title | Year | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Drama Of The Scharnhorst | 1951 | |
| 2 |  The Struggle for Europe | 1952 | |
| 3 |  The Crecy War | 1955 | |
| 4 |  This Hallowed Ground | 1955 | |
| 5 |  The Agincourt War | 1956 | |
| 6 | The Generalship of Alexander the Great | 1958 | |
| 7 |  The Longest Day | 1959 | |
| 8 | Julius Caesar | 1965 | |
| 9 |  Bosworth Field and the Wars of the Roses | 1966 | |
| 10 |  A Concise History of Warfare | 1972 | |
| 11 |  Queen Victoria's Little Wars | 1972 | |
| 12 |  The Peninsular War | 1973 | |
| 13 | Winston Churchill | 1974 | |
| 14 |  The Hussar General: The Life of Blücher, Man of Waterloo | 1975 | |
| 15 |  Rorke's drift | 1975 | |
| 16 |  The Thin Yellow Line | 1975 | |
| 17 |  The Great Anglo-Boer War | 1976 | |
| 18 |  The Battle of Loos | 1976 | |
| 19 |  The English Civil War | 1976 | |
| 20 |  Rommel: The Trail of the Fox | 1977 | |
| 21 |  Battle of Britain | 1980 | |
| 22 |  The Great War | 1980 | |
| 23 |  Flying Colours: The Epic Story Of Douglas Bader | 1981 | |
| 24 |  The Right of the Line | 1985 | |
| 25 | The Military Experience In The Age Of Reason | 1987 | |
| 26 |  The 1916 Battle of the Somme Reconsidered | 1988 | |
| 27 |  Business In Great Waters | 1989 | |
| 28 |  A Dictionary of Napoleonic Wars | 1993 | |
| 29 |  Crusades | 1998 | |
| 30 |  Aramada the Planning the Battle and After | 1998 | |
| 31 |  Slim: The Standardbearer: A Biography of Field-Marshal the Viscount Slim | 1999 | |
| 32 |  Midway | 2000 | |
| 33 |  Guide to the Battlefields of Europe | 2007 |