Shelby Foote
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Shelby Dade Foote Jr. was an American writer and journalist. Although he primarily viewed himself as a novelist, he is now best known for his authorship of The Civil War: A Narrative, a three-volume h
Foote in 1975
Letter from Foote to childhood friend Grant Stockdale (1962)
Foote's longtime home at 542 East Parkway South in Memphis
Shelby Foote historical marker, Greenville, Mississippi (2019)
The Civil War (miniseries)
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The Civil War is a 1990 American television documentary miniseries created by Ken Burns about the American Civil War. It was the first broadcast to air on PBS for five consecutive nights, from Septemb
Shelby Foote
…Old South to the Civil Rights era of the New South. Foote was little known to the general public until his appearance in Ken Burns's PBS documentary The Civil War in 1990, where he introduced a generation of Americans to a war that he believed was "central to all our lives." Foote did all his writing by hand with…
A side portion of the 1991 VHS box set of nine volumes