"[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 ...

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.

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 ...

Author Shelby Foote, who died this week at age 88, had a gift for telling tales about the Civil War as if he'd been there to smell the smoke and hear the screams. For much of his career, Foote was ...

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 ...