and the best parts of it are the interspersed clips of Burns’s interviews with the historian Shelby Foote. Foote was the author of a magisterial three-volume history of the Civil War ...

The Civil War was produced by Ken Burns and Ric Burns and written by Geoffrey C. Ward, Ric Burns, and Ken Burns. Southern novelist Shelby Foote is the series' eloquent principal on-camera interview.

Stuff has really been enriched, and so as we return to this event, as we will always return to it, a thousand years from now, it's the Shelby Foote set in the Civil War, it's the crossroads of our ...