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. (AP) -- Novelist and Civil War historian Shelby Foote, who became a national celebrity in explaining the war to the nation on Ken Burns' 1990 PBS documentary, died Monday. He was 88.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...