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.

Thirty-five years ago, I stood with filmmaker Ken Burns at what was then called the Chicago Historical Society (now the Chicago History Museum). He was telling me some advice that Southern novelist ...

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 ...