Chattanooga author Roy Morris Jr. has been named editor of Military Heritage magazine, Sovereign Media publisher Carl Gnam announced today.

"I'm delighted to be working with Roy again," Mr. Gnam said. "Besides having a great appreciation and understanding of history, he's also a great writer himself and knows exactly what's required to tell an informative but also exciting story. We share a strong belief that history should not be boring, and that if it is, it's probably because it was badly written--something we try hard to avoid in Military Heritage.

"Roy and I first worked together in the late-1980s, when he was editor of another history magazine I owned, and we developed a good working relationship based on a shared love of history and an abiding respect for the men and women who made it come alive. I look forward to many more years of working together on Military Heritage."

Military Heritage, now in its sixth year of publication, is a bimonthly publication with a circulation of 125,000 in the United States and abroad. Featuring articles across the broad spectrum of armed conflict, from ancient times to the modern day, the magazine is printed in full color on glossy, coated paper. Stories are illustated with period photos, drawings and paintings from museum collections around the world. Sovereign Media also publishes WWII History, Realms of Fantasy and Sci-Fi, the official magazine of the Sci-Fi Channel.

The current issue of Miltary Heritage, now on the newsstand, features articles on such diverse subjects as Alexander the Great's siege of Tyre, the Civil War battle of Petersburg, the 1745 Battle of Fontenoy, the first poison gas attack in the history of warfare at Ypres, Belgium, in 1916, and the 1950 Korean War battle at Chosin Reservoir. In addition, there are shorter features on medieval catapults, the first Chinese emperor, Shih Huang-ti, World War II spy Oreste Pinto, and French helmets in World War I.

Mr. Morris, a former staff writer for the Chattanooga Times and the Chattanooga News-Free Press, is the author of four books: Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876; The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War; Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company; and Sheridan: The Life and Wars of General Phil Sheridan.

A long-time magazine editor and Civil War expert, Mr. Morris is a graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and holds a master's degree from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. In 1986 he won the Author's Prize from Civil War Times Illustrated for his piece on the death of Union General William Lytle at the Battle of Chickamauga. He has contributed to numerous national publications, as well as serving as a consultant for the History Channel and A&E Network, and has delivered speeches at the National Archives, National Portrait Gallery, National Art Club in New York City, Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, and the annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War and Free Expression at UTC. In 2003 he appeared on C-SPAN's respected author-interview program, Booknotes, with Brian Lamb.

A native of Chattanooga, Mr. Morris resides in North Chattanooga with his wife, Leslie, and their children, Phil, a senior at McCallie School, and Lucy, an eighth-grader at Girls Preparatory School.