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Hace 2 días · He enjoyed accompanying author and historian Shelby Foote—and later, as writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia, Joseph Blotner—on visits to Civil War battlefields. Enamored as he was with all things military, Faulkner gladly accepted an invitation to visit the United States Military Academy at West Point on April 19-20, 1962 ...
Hace 1 día · General Reynolds was shot and killed early in the fighting while directing troop and artillery placements just to the east of the woods. Shelby Foote wrote that the Union cause lost a man considered by many to be "the best general in the army". Major General Abner Doubleday assumed command. Fighting in the Chambersburg Pike area lasted until ...
Hace 2 días · Shelby Foote's Civil War: A Narrative is a good read: a long read, but a good one. The historian started his writing career as a novelist so the narrative in his three volume civil war history reads like a good novel; never boring. it also has details, just as interesting, that I've never seen in other books. Shelby Foote's Civil War: A ...
Hace 1 día · Foote, Shelby, The Civil War, A Narrative: Red River to Appomattox. New York: Vintage Civil War Library, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (Kindle Edition), 2011. New York: Vintage Civil War Library, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (Kindle Edition), 2011.
Hace 3 días · On December 20, 2000, President Bill Clinton conferred the National Medal of Arts on Texas dramatist Horton Foote (1916–2009), and noted that Foote's six-decade-long, award-winning career established him as the nation's most prolific writer for stage, film, and television.
Hace 5 días · The Speeches of Frederick Douglass: a Critical Edition. by Frederick Douglass. edited by McKivigan, Husband, & Kaufman. This volume brings together twenty of Frederick Douglass’s most historically significant speeches on a range of issues, including slavery, abolitionism, civil rights, sectionalism, temperance, women’s rights, economic development, and immigration.
Hace 6 días · Back in May 2022, Shelby American and Hertz once again teamed up to produce the latest in a long line of high-performance rental Ford Mustang models – the 2022 Mustang Shelby GT500-H. The latest version of those famous “rent-a-racers” – which originally debuted back in the 1960s – carried on that rich tradition by giving a select few folks the chance to rent something that was far ...
