MEMPHIS, Tenn. Novelist and Civil War historian Shelby Foote, who became a national celebrity explaining the war to America on Ken Burns' 1990 PBS documentary, has died at 88. Foote died Monday night, ...

THERE WAS SOMETHING BEYOND OLD-fashioned–maybe the right word is archaic–about Shelby Foote. It emerged full-blown that evening a decade ago when he appeared in Ken Burns’s Civil War series as the ...

"[Illustration on] p. 113: From a drawing by Aldred R. Waud, courtesy Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution/Art Resource, New York."--p. 314, v. 14 (Fort Stedman to ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Historian Shelby Foote was buried Thursday under a huge magnolia tree near the graves of Civil War combatants whose exploits he chronicled in one of the best-known books about the ...

POTTSVILLE — Housekeeping time at the Schuylkill County Historical Society turned up a cache of books that’s delighting Civil War enthusiasts. Felicia Wolf, assistant director, found several dozen ...

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