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 ...

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' ...

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 ...

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2001-09-02T12:00:08-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/833/165823-m.jpgMr. Foote conducted a tour of his home. Then, sitting at the desk where he does all his ...

Holding a place of prominence adjacent to Pitkin County’s courthouse for almost 122 years stands Aspen’s Civil War soldier statue. Installed May 31, 1899, it represents the sacrifices on both sides of ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 to Ken Burns' PBS documentary series The Civil War ...