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. (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.

"[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 ...

To many Americans, Shelby Foote's sleepy Southern drawl is the voice of authority on the Civil War. The author's commentary for Ken Burns' wildly popular 1990 television documentary on the subject ...

“Any understanding of this nation has to be based on an understanding of the Civil War,” the late historian Shelby Foote observed. It “defined us as what we are, and it opened us up to what we became.

Shelby Foote, whose three-volume narrative history of the Civil War gave me one of the prime reading experiences of my life, died Monday night. A friend once said he tried reading Foote's history but ...