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 territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave ...

There are two leading questions presented by the record: 1) Had the Circuit Court of the United States jurisdiction to hear and determine the case between these parties? And 2) If it had ...

The Dred Scott challenge isn't a difficult but rewarding ... Maybe you don't agree with any of that. In that case, I'll just summarize where I stand on the merits. Whatever one may think of ...

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The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) has released new research on Dred and Harriet Scott, an enslaved couple who sued for their freedom. The Scott's case went to the Supreme Court in 1856 ...

In a sparsely attended event on March 25 in Morris Library, Catherine Davis, a longtime anti-abortion activist and founder of ...

The Old St. Louis Courthouse, site of the Dred Scott decision, has been restored with new accessibility features and is set to reopen May 3.

Ryan McClure is the executive director of the Gateway Arch Park Foundation. McClure says the old courthouse is much more ...

“When people hear the whole story that I do (and) when I travel around the country, they really get the nuances of the case—not just the headlines and the bylines,” Jackson said. Dred Scott ...

One of the historic building's four first-floor galleries will now focus on how the infamous Dred Scott case was a product of its time and how it still resonates today.