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• Posted Monday 11/06/17 at 10:48PM EST

  Historian Shelby Foote from PBS' The Civil War apparently held racist views of blacks

  The late historian, who has been in the news after apparently influencing Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly's views on...

• Posted Wednesday 11/01/17 at 3:54AM EDT

  Did Ken Burns’ The Civil War teach John Kelly that the war was the result of “the lack of an ability to compromise”?

  As Jonathan Chait notes, the White House chief of staff’s controversial claims about the Civil War “are an almost verbatim...