Chronological List of Works Discussed in Entertaining History
1885 The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
1890 “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce
1895 The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
1915 Birth of a Nation directed by D. W. Griffith
1936 Gone With the Wind (novel) by Margaret Mitchell
1939 Gone With the Wind (film) produced by David O. Selznick
1951-1953 Bruce Catton’s Army of the Potomac Series: Mr. Lincoln’s Army (1951), Glory Road (1952), and A Stillness at Appomattox (1953)
1952 Shiloh: A Novel by Shelby Foote
1955 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
1958 The Civil War: A Narrative—Vol. I, Fort Sumter to Perryville by Shelby Foote
1959 The Andersonville Trial by Saul Levitt
1960 “If the South Had Won the Civil War” by MacKinlay Kantor
1960 Grant Moves South by Bruce Catton
circa 1960s “The Kennesaw Line” written by Don Oja-Dunaway
1961 The Coming Fury by Bruce Catton
1962 Patriotic Gore by Edmund Wilson
1963 Terrible Swift Sword by Bruce Catton
1963 The Civil War: A Narrative—Vol. II, Fredericksburg to Meridian by Shelby Foote
1969 “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” by The Band
1972 Waiting for the Morning Train by Bruce Catton
1974 The Civil War: A Narrative—Vol. III, Red River to Appomattox by Shelby Foote
1974 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
1976 Roots by Alex Haley
1977 Roots (ABC)
1979 Roots: The Next Generations (ABC)
1982 The Blue & The Gray (CBS)
1983-1987 Time-Life: The Civil War, William C. “Jack” Davis, ed.
1985 North & South (ABC)
1986 “The Kennesaw Line” performed by Bobby Horton
1988 Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James McPherson
1989 Glory directed by Edward Zwick
1990 The Civil War directed by Ken Burns
1993 Gettysburg directed by Ron Maxwell
1995 Shrouds of Glory: From Atlanta to Nashville—The Last Great Campaign of the Civil War by Winston Groom
1996 Gods & Generals (novel) by Jeff Shaara
1996 Andersonville (TNT)
1997 Cold Mountain (novel) by Charles Frazier
1998 The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara
1999 Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz
1999 The Hunley (TNT)
2000 Gone for Soldiers by Jeff Shaara
2003 Gods and Generals (film), directed by Ron Maxwell
2003 Cold Mountain (film), directed by Anthony Minghella
2007 “The Kennesaw Line” performed by Claire Lynch
2009 Vicksburg, 1863 by Winston Groom
2012 A Blaze of Glory by Jeff Shaara
2013 Shiloh, 1862 by Winston Groom
2013 A Chain of Thunder by Jeff Shaara
2013 12 Years a Slave directed by Steve McQueen
2014 The Smoke at Dawn by Jeff Shaara
2015 That Fateful Lightning by Jeff Shaara
2016 Roots (The History Channel)
2016 Birth of a Nation directed by Nate Parker
