Question: What person in American history became known as The Great Compromiser? In fact, two key legislative acts he helped form were referred to as the Compromise of 1820 and, 30 years later, the ...

There was something quaint, like an historical re-enactment, about the bipartisan compromise that resulted from negotiations between congressional Democrats and Republicans to head off another ...

Frank Nickell said it is difficult to overestimate the importance of the 1820 Missouri Compromise, the agreement by the U.S. Congress to admit Missouri to the union as a slave state while at the same ...

"To compromise is to make a deal where one person gives up part of his or her demand. In arguments, compromise is a concept of finding agreement through communication, through a mutual acceptance of ...

Many have pointed out that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly’s veneration this week of Robert E. Lee as an honorable man and his contention that the Civil War came about as a result of an ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Last week, 14 U.S. senators reached an agreement concerning the filibuster of judicial nominations, thereby avoiding the “nuclear option” which might have ...