The historical consultants were typically college professors or, in the case of war-related stories, retired military officers; among the more noteworthy consultants for the series were the historians Bruce Catton, Walter Prescott Webb and A. B. Guthrie, Jr..
Bruce Springsteen | Bruce Lee | Bruce Willis | Bruce Dickinson | Bruce Cockburn | Bruce Campbell | Lenny Bruce | Bruce Sterling | Bruce Forsyth | Robert the Bruce | Bruce Beresford | Bruce | Bruce Weber | Bruce Weber (photographer) | James Bruce | Jack Bruce | Bruce Broughton | Bruce Brown | Bruce Nesmith | Bruce Li | Bruce Greenwood | Bruce Kent | Bruce Babbitt | Nigel Bruce | Bruce Grobbelaar | Bruce Dern | Bruce Chatwin | Bruce Baum | Bruce Andrews | Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin |
They enlarged it, turned it into a hardcover, profusely illustrated bimonthly with no advertisements, and hired popular American Civil War historian Bruce Catton as editor and writer.
Petoskey is the birthplace of information theorist Claude Shannon and Civil War historian Bruce Catton and is the boyhood home of singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens.