The Civil War: A Narrative, Volume 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian (Part 2 of 2 parts) [Library Binding]
KN@PPSTER (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
... because I get a sales commission, of course! Fiction The Wilson and Stephenson offerings are relatively new (this year). The Moon is a Harsh Mistress , of course, is a classic that anyone who doesn't own, should. Non-Fiction None of these are new, but all of them are essential. Others is a fantastic multi-volume history of third party politics in America. All the detail, and all the narrative zest,...
Lance Mannion (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
We’ve been watching Ken Burns’ The Civil War and last night we finished the episode that includes the battle of Gettysburg. And when the story Pickett’s Charge, the historian Shelby Foote, the shy-eyed, slow-talking baritone who is the star of the narrational portions of Burns’ documentary, refers to a quote from William Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust about how for young...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
The American Civil War has been exhaustively researched and written about. Popular and scholarly historians from Alan Nevins and Shelby Foote to James McPherson and Stephen Sears, not to mention scores of others, have all rendered their rich portraits of America's pivotal tragedy.
Legal History Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Minor Myers, Brooklyn Law School, has posted Supreme Court Usage and the Making of an 'Is' It originally appeared in the Green Bag, 2d ser. 11 (Summer 2008): 457. Here's the abstract:This survey examines use of the phrases “United States is” and “United States are” in opinions of the United States Supreme Court from 1790 to 1919. The familiar claim, popularized by Shelby Foote...
DawgSports (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
It has gotten to the point where I look forward to casting my SEC Power Poll ballot about as much as a one-hit wonder enjoys looking at the Billboard top 40 five weeks after the band’s first single charted. We both know it’s all downhill from here. This is the Shelby Foote novel that best summarizes a Georgia fan’s experience of following the SEC Power Poll. No, the image isn’t...
TYWKIWDBI (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
So spoke Abraham Lincoln, besieged by officeseekers desiring jobs in the federal government, quoted by Shelby Foote in Ken Burns' documentary The Civil War .
Elektratig (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
In two recent posts at The Language Log, Mark Liberman examines the oft-repeated contention that the Civil War dramatically changed the United States from a plural to a singular entity: before the War, the United States "were"; immediately after, the United States "was". As examples of the ubiquity of this idea, Prof. Liberman quotes two worthy sources, the late Shelby Foote and...
Legal History Blog (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Supreme Court Usage and the Making of an 'Is' has just been posted by Minor Myers, Brooklyn Law School. It appeared in Green Bag 2D (2008). Here's the abstract: This survey examines use of the phrases “United States is” and “United States are” in opinions of the United States Supreme Court from 1790 to 1919. The familiar claim, popularized by Shelby Foote in the Ken Burns Civil...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
An international perspective on America's civil war The American Civil War: A Military History. By John Keegan. Knopf; 416 pages; $35. Hutchinson; GBP25. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk A BRITISH military historian, even one as distinguished as Sir John Keegan, is hard put to say something new about America’s civil war. Fine American scholars, such as Bruce Catton, Shelby Foote and James McPherson,...
Freedom Writing (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana (1863–1952) The Life of Reason Vol. I, Reason in Common...
The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
By Lincoln’s army during the War to Prevent Southern Independence, says a recent article in the scholarly journal Daedalus by Chrystal Feimster, a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I wrote about this more than seven years ago in The Real Lincoln, as did Shelby Foote in his classic trilogy, [...]
DawgSports (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
In many ways, I was hoping on January 1, 2009, that the coming year would definitely not be like 2005. In 2005, the following happened: The Atlantic hurricane season was the most active and devastating season the world had seen in 154 years, including hurricanes Katrina and Rita striking the gulf coast. Suicide bombers struck multiple train and bus stations in London, in what is now considered the...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009
Ken Burns’ mega-docs have spawned a star or two. Shelby Foote rose from obscurity after his bravura performance on “The Civil War.” Local legend Buck O’Neil, a pretty darn good baseball player in the Negro Leagues and the first African-American major-league coach, found the greatest stardom of his life after being a major voice on “Baseball.”...
USA Today (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
Ken Burns' films often shine the light of fame on their participants what Burns himself calls "The Shelby Foote Effect," named ...
emergesque (Free subscription) | 08/01/2009
I'm not abandoning the faithmaps blog, but I have started a new Organizational Development and Leadership Blog entitled OrgImpact . Today I posted some thoughts about Shelby Foote's The Civil War .
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