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 ...

In Greenville, Mississippi, birthplace of Shelby Foote, C. Stuart Chapman discusses his book "Shelby Foote: A Writer's Life". Shelby Foote is a biographer, novelist, and historian best known for ...

In brief rites, Shelby Foote is interred at the same historic Memphis cemetery where more than 1,000 soldiers from the conflict now lie.

THE death of Shelby Foote, TV historian and author of the best-known account of the American civil war, recalls the Irish romantic escapade that blighted his military career. As a young US ...

Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign By Shelby Foote Modern Library, 304 pages, $13.50 The three volumes of Shelby Foote’s “The Civil War: A Narrative,” a monumental account of ...

Our nation’s obituarists responded to the death of the Civil War historian Shelby Foote on Monday night by splitting, roughly, into two familiar camps: those above and those below the Mason ...

Shelby Foote is gone, at 88. Maybe now the Civil War can finally be over. He had his own internal conflict. He wanted to be known as a novelist but will forever be remembered as the author of a ...

MEMPHIS, TENN. - Southern author Shelby Foote was buried Thursday under a huge magnolia tree near the graves of Civil War soldiers whose exploits he chronicled in one of the best-known histories ...

When Southern novelist Shelby Foote set out to write a Civil War history for the conflict’s centennial, the plan had been to release a single, brief volume. Thirty years and 3,000 pages later ...

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On July 18, 2014, Dr. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. was honored with the Shelby Foote Preservation Legacy Award by the Civil War Trust, at a ceremony held in Atlanta, for ...