"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 "Bo…
Shelby Foote on how the North and South eventually achieved real national reunion long after the war itself had ended. Sadly, this "Great Compromise" has been abrogated of late.
Tacitus was a Roman historian right after the birth and death of Jesus, and he is, above all, a writer. Tacitus' style is just a joy to be involved with, whether in the original Latin, which…
Shelby Foote describes the savagery of the Civil War and briefly mentions his roots in Mississippi.
