New York Times, John Kelly Pins Civil War on ‘Lack of Ability to Compromise’, Oct. 31, 2017 Interview, Daniel Crofts, professor of history, The College of New Jersey, Oct. 31, 2017 ...

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly waded into the fray of relitigating the Civil War on Monday night, calling Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee “an honorable man,” and blaming “the lack of ...

John Kelly Claims Civil War Caused By Lack Of Compromise. History Shows Otherwise : The Two-Way The White House chief of staff made the remark during an interview on Fox News.

The Civil War was about slavery, about which there was no “good faith” compromise, writes Jill Filipovic. ... According to White House chief of staff John Kelly, it’s the latter.

Jelani Cobb writes about John Kelly’s incorrect assertion that the U.S. Civil War happened because of a lack of compromise, a racialist misreading of history.

John Kelly is wrong on the Civil War — he can’t rewrite history by Gregory J. Wallance, opinion contributor - 11/01/17 1:00 PM ET ...

John Kelly's Civil War history fail speaks to a much bigger problem Kelly only said what many white Americans believe: Slavery wasn't that important and the Southern cause was "noble" ...

The debate over John Kelly and Ken Burns’s ‘The Civil War’ is making us stupider. November 1, 2017. Because nary a week goes by in this White House without some ridiculous controversy, ...

John Kelly’s controversial statement on the Civil War, which blamed the conflict on failure to compromise, didn't come about by accident.

John Kelly, the White House chief of staff and retired Marine Corps general who has served as Homeland Defense secretary and Commander of the U.S. Southern Command, is getting a history lesson from… ...