“The American Civil War is an experience central to our lives,” Foote explained in a 1987 interview contained in “Conversations With Shelby Foote,” edited by William C. Carter.

Shelby Foote was the author of a magisterial three-volume history of the Civil War, which is in itself one of the treasures of American civilization.

Civil War Historian Shelby Foote Dies at 88 Novelist and historian Shelby Foote died Monday night. He was 88. The native Mississippian gained a sort of celebrity when he lent his gravelly voice ...

It took Shelby Foote 20 years to pen a three-volume, 3,000 page history of the Civil War. It was called simply "The Civil War: A Narrative." The final volume was published in 1974.

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

It wasn’t long before a letter landed on Foote’s desk from Random House publisher Bennett Cerf asking if Foote would write a 200,000 word short history on the civil war.

One of the greatest Civil War historians saw nobility in the stars and bars. We Could Use a Shelby Foote Today - The American Conservative Politics Foreign Affairs Culture Fellows Program Login ...

"Like all traumatic experiences you may have had in you adolesence, it stays with you the rest of your life" Author Shelby Foote on the nation's consciousness of the Civil War. C-SPAN's "Booknotes ...

Whether his words were spoken or written, no 20th-century storyteller could bring the American Civil War to life like Shelby Foote, the novelist and reluctant television star who died Monday night ...

The historian Shelby Foote, who died Monday at 88, gained wide renown when he entered millions of American living rooms as the gently authoritative commentator of “The Civil War,” the 1990 PBS ...