“The American Civil War is an experience central to our lives,” Foote explained in a 1987 interview contained in “Conversations With Shelby Foote,” edited by William C. Carter.

From James McPherson’s definitive history to Tony Horwitz’s adventures among obsessives, here are the 11 best books on the Civil War in time for the 150th anniversary.

Shelby Foote was the author of a magisterial three-volume history of the Civil War, which is in itself one of the treasures of American civilization.

It took Shelby Foote 20 years to pen a three-volume, 3,000 page history of the Civil War. It was called simply "The Civil War: A Narrative." The final volume was published in 1974.

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 ...

Republishing Foote’s epic to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War was, as Meacham said, a “no-brainer.” “Anybody who wants to understand the Civil War needs to ...

As much as we want to remember the Civil War as a war for freedom, emancipation, and the full realization of American ideals, there is Foote calling us into the mythical world of the Confederacy ...

"Like all traumatic experiences you may have had in you adolesence, it stays with you the rest of your life" Author Shelby Foote on the nation's consciousness of the Civil War. C-SPAN's "Booknotes ...

One of the greatest Civil War historians saw nobility in the stars and bars. We Could Use a Shelby Foote Today - The American Conservative Politics Foreign Affairs Culture Fellows Program Login ...

As much as we want to remember the Civil War as a war for freedom, emancipation, and the full realization of American ideals, there is Foote calling us into the mythical world of the Confederacy ...

Foote came to dominate that series because he Shelby Foote A Writer's Life by C. Stuart Chapman University Press of Mississippi, 317 pp., $30 SHELBY FOOTE, now eighty-six, is a great American writer.

Knauer also chose to illuminate the well-known and epic battles of the Civil War — the deadliest conflict in American history — but says that he wanted to make sure that the boredom was ...