In March of 1857, the United States Supreme Court ... The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free ...

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue ... the case and whether Scott was indeed a citizen. The decision of the court was read in March of 1857. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney -- a staunch supporter ...

The National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) has cited the infamous 1857 Dred Scott Supreme Court decision, which ...

On Sunday, April 27, at 2 pm, in the lower meeting room of C. H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street, Newtown Historical Society will host a lecture on “The Dred Scott Decision.” Dred Scott was a slave who ...

In 1857, the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision had held that no black of African descent (free or slave) could be a citizen of the United States. The Fourteenth Amendment was thus necessary to ...

And so they have a lot to tell us. This is from Schmidt’s substack, which is highly recommended: “Bishop Barber told me that after the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision of 1857 that 39-year-old ...

You know, frankly, in a more hideous way you had that situation prior to the Civil War, in the Dred Scott decision. No, I'm not comparing the two Supreme Courts. What I'm saying is, the Dred Scott ...

The Dred Scott challenge isn't a difficult but rewarding game that ingenious scholars should have an interest in overcoming. It's an invitation to rewrite constitutional text and history in ...