Though I’ve read a good amount of Civil War history over my lifetime, ranging from Shelby Foote’s “The Civil War” to Michael Shaara’s novel about Gettysburg, “The Killer Angels,” Thomas’s look at this ...

where novelist Walker Percy and his childhood friend historian Shelby Foote spent summers. Foote, the consummate storyteller, would surface as dominant chronicler of the Civil War, and the voice ...

What are you boys fighting for? That’s the question writer-historian Shelby Foote tries to answer in Ken Burns’ landmark 1990 documentary The Civil War. Foote ...

Shelby Foote’s narrative account of the Civil War, and Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors. Along with four other books, they reflect what our legislators deem Tennessee’s “rich political ...

Reminiscent of Cold Mountain and Gone with the Wind, a civil war saga of a Virginia plantation family fulfilling its unforgettable destiny. Widely acclaimed, with comparisons to Margaret Mitchell and ...

While several of the selections are quality works, Shelby Foote's otherwise great account of the Civil War is marred by his argument in the first volume that the war was not about slavery.

A Death in the Family" by James Agee. — "Roots" by Alex Haley. — "The Civil War: A Narrative" by Shelby Foote. — "American Lion" by Jon Meacham. — "Coat of Many Colors" by Dolly Parton.

What are you boys fighting for? That’s the question writer-historian Shelby Foote tries to answer in Ken Burns’ landmark 1990 documentary The Civil War. Foote ...