2001-09-02T13:28:15-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/d7d/20010902133018002.jpgShelby Foote, author of 3 books of history on the Civil War Shelby Foote, author of ...

Civil War historian and novelist Shelby Foote died Monday night at age 88. He is best known for his three-volume, 3,000-page history entitled The Civil War: A Narrative, and for narrating Ken Burns' ...

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 ...

Shelby Foote, the last great Southern historian of the South before and during the War Between the States, has gone. The Times published a large and respectful obituary (June 29). It took ...

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 ...

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A renowned historian, novelist and playwright is the winner of this year's Helmerich Distinguished Author award. The Tulsa Library Trust announced Tuesday morning that Shelby Foote will receive the ...

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 ...

Back in the summer of 2000, when men still said what was on their minds (sometimes) and before the hoary ideal of freedom of speech had collapsed under the accumulated weight of 9/11, the Patriot Act, ...

Novelist and historian Shelby Foote, whose Southern storyteller’s touch inspired millions to read his multivolume work on the Civil War, has died. He was 88. Foote died Monday night, his widow, Gwyn, ...