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I certainly got what I was looking for in terms of getting a much better understanding of the progression of the war and can now associate these battles I've known the names of for decades within the larger scope of the overall war and the ebb and flow of momentum on each side over the years of the war. Reading this history makes me want to visit these battlefields more than ever. I replied with a list of some military engagements starting with the Battle of Thermopylae and going forward well into the 20th century. The information is easily found online. I do not know why my comments were deleted. Our current state of affairs begs the question, how many more populist uprisings are we to endure before we shed the scaled husk of tribalism and embrace a more enlightened way.

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The historian Robert Rosenstone writes that people are generally more trusting of documentaries than they are of feature films. But this is a “mistaken form of trust.” Rosenstone argues that, like feature films, documentaries also dramatize scenes and impose certain storytelling conventions – often constructing a narrative that begins with a conflict and ends with a resolution. Unlike the Hollywood film, however, the documentary implies that “what you are seeing onscreen is somehow a direct representation of what happened in the past.” [13] Professor of education Jeremy Stoddard refers to this as “The History Channel Effect,” and suggests that documentaries are “often treated with the same reverence given to primary historical sources.” [14] The author above, in her short essay here, seems to have a shallow understanding of what is wrong with Ken Burns shallow portrayal of the Civil War. And to be honest, it comes off as a well written paper for a College Sophomore History class. Shiloh" (1952), set during the 1862 Civil War battle in Tennessee in which about 24,000 were killed or wounded, blended fiction with fact and used multiple characters to describe the action. The Civil War: A Narrative," released between 1958 and 1974, was written with a literate flair, a mournful lyricism that underscored the human agony of battle, defeat and victory. He received darts for the books' perceived failings as an academic undertaking; he didn't bother with footnotes and touched only vaguely on larger themes of the war's origin and ramifications.

Mississippi Writers Trail markers for Shelby Foote and Walker Percy unveiled in Greenville | Mississippi Development Authority". Mississippi.org . Retrieved June 16, 2020. The Civil War: A Narrative, Yorktown to Cedar Mountain (40th Anniversaryed.). Alexandria, VA: Time-Life. 1999. ISBN 0-7835-0102-1. Meacham, Jon (April–May 2011). "Shelby Foote's War Story: How a Memphis novelist's history of the Civil War made history itself". Garden & Gun . Retrieved 2011-05-08. The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville. New York: Vintage Books. 1986. ISBN 0-394-74623-6.

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It’s worth noting that filmmakers not trained as historians, like Ava DuVernay ( Thirteenth) or Marlon Riggs ( Ethnic Notions, Color Adjustment), have been able to produce challenging and accurate documentaries. Indeed, through lenses like theirs, the Civil War narrative would have been much more nuanced and would have encompassed of a wider set of experiences and ideas. PBS’s own highly rated Civil Rights documentary, “Eyes on the Prize ,” aired in 1987, just a few years prior to “The Civil War .” Although written and directed by a variety of people, “Eyes on the Prize” was – and still is – considered good, sound history, and is still being screened in history classes across the U.S. today. Saint Louis University Library Associates. "Recipients of the Saint Louis Literary Award". Archived from the original on July 31, 2016 . Retrieved July 25, 2016. a b Renda, Lex (August 26, 1996). "Review of Toplin, Robert Brent, ed., Ken Burns's The Civil War: Historians Respond". H-net.org. H-CivWar, H-Review . Retrieved October 26, 2021. The Civil War: A Narrative, Five Forks to Appomattox: Victory and Defeat. New York: Random House. 2005. ISBN 0-307-29031-X.

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The final volume opens with the beginning of the two final, major confrontations of the war: Grant against Lee in Virginia, and Sherman pressing Johnston in north Georgia in 1864. The narrative describes the events and battles from Sherman's March to the Sea to Lincoln's assassination and the surrender of Lee at Appomattox. Mitchell, Douglas. "'The Conflict Is behind Me Now": Shelby Foote Writes the Civil War." The Southern Literary Journal, vol. 36, no. 1, 2003 21 a b Coates, Ta-Nehisi (June 13, 2011). "The Convenient Suspension of Disbelief". Theatlantic.com . Retrieved July 16, 2018. The Civil War: A Narrative. New York: Random House. 2011. ISBN 978-0-679-64370-8. OCLC 671703677. – boxed set William Faulkner; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Thomas Wolfe; O. Henry; Stephen Vincent Benet; Stephen Crane; Shelby Foote; Martin H. Greenberg [Editor]; Bill Pronzini [Editor];

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I believe it. Often I find myself turning to pen and paper too, although I've never gone so far as dip pens. Foote maintained that " the French Maquis did far worse things than the Ku Klux Klan ever did—who never blew up trains or burnt bridges or anything else," and that the First Klan "didn't even have lynchings." [31] [37] Foote saw slavery as a cause of the Civil War, commenting that "the people who say slavery had nothing to do with the war are just as wrong as the people who say it had everything to do with the war." Furthermore, Foote also argued that slavery was "certainly doomed to extinction" but was used "almost as a propaganda item," and that "those who wanted to exploit it could grab onto it." [33] Shelby Dade Foote Jr. was born Nov. 17, 1916, in Greenville, Miss. He inherited colorful ancestors, including frontiersmen, gamblers who squandered fortunes and soldiers who fought for the Confederacy. The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox. New York: Vintage Books. 1986. ISBN 0-394-74622-8. So that’s the best I can do. It’s Shelby Foote’s epic masterpiece life’s work, and that’s what I have to say about it.Fred L. Schultz, "An interview with Shelby Foote: 'All life has a plot'." Naval History 8.5 (1994): 36–39. The mythologizing, though, is part of the charm of these books. If you want the hardcore research, the diligent analysis, and the careful parsing of evidence, there are plenty of other places to turn. No, despite many Lost Cause shadings, the true tone of The Civil War: A Narrative is of white reconciliation. At the end of Burns’ The Civil War, Foote is given the valedictory, which he uses to quote the Benson letter I excerpted above. While he speaks, we are shown images of old white men in blue and gray, shaking hands and making amends. This is the post-Reconstruction moment where white America decided the war had been a contest of moral equals. You were brave and I was brave; I was brave and you were brave. Now we can all get along. This is the reason Gettysburg is a national gathering place and a popular tourist destination, rather than a national scar. Shelby Foote (1989). Conversations with Shelby Foote. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp.37, 46. ISBN 978-0-87805-386-5. Foote worked for several weeks on an outline and decided that his plan couldn't be done to Cerf's specifications. He requested that the project be expanded to three volumes of 500,000 to 600,000 words each, and he estimated that the entire project would be done in nine years. [13]

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There's certainly nothing wrong with this trilogy's writing style. Foote goes into great detail and makes the time live and breathe. It is a classic history; if it were about half as long it would be better known, but it wouldn't go into the depth of detail that makes it unique. As a nearly irrelevant aside, the cover lists the Civil War as ‘one of National Review’s 100 best nonfiction books of the century’, which I am totally down for, but I googled it and the book ranks 97th on the list. That feels vaguely misleading on the part of the publisher. It’s technically true, yes, but you have to admit, it’s a little shady to say.

In any case, by the time I got to the end of this trilogy I was wondering how much longer the blood and suffering could go on. "Until every drop of blood drawn by the lash is repaid by one drawn by the sword," apparently; and beyond. As another example, I have to wonder how the 20th Maine could have held its position on Little Round Top on July 2 had it not been for the stand of the 4th Maine at Devil’s Den, engaging one, perhaps two, Confederate regiments that could otherwise have joined the assault on the Union line. The 4th Maine incurred 140 killed, wounded and captured that day. We desperately need a new Civil War documentary that can be seen by broad swathes of the American public. Because film is such an emotionally resonant medium, and such a wonderful means of bringing a scholarly subject to the general public, it is imperative that true experts of Civil War era and slavery studies use this medium to (re)educate the American people about our own history. Over the years, he liked to tell people he was working on a sprawling novel that he called "Two Gates to the City." The book was nonexistent, but it served as a good red herring. He later said, "People ought not write when they are old." In 2003, Foote received the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award. The Helmerich Award is presented annually by the Tulsa Library Trust.