DeSantis isn’t necessarily confident that the current court would support his and Trump’s view on birthright citizenship ...

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 ...

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom ... In what is perhaps the most infamous case in its history, the court decided that all people of African ancestry -- slaves as well as ...

that the judges of the Supreme Court have come to a decision in the case of DRED SCOTT, which involves the consitutionality of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

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

We pay tribute to the late, remarkable Jimmy Carter, who died today at age 100, by recalling his historic visit to Bates in 1985 to honor his friend Edmund Muskie '36 and to praise the greatness of ...

Watching my mother paint beautiful oil on canvas murals and stills. What does Black History Month mean to you? I am honored to carry the name of a significant figure and moment of Black History.

This is equivalent to declaring that black men map be citizens of the United States, and that the dicta to the contrary in the Dred Scott case are incorrect. We say the dicta and not the decision ...

In 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a black man like Dred Scott was “reduced to slavery for his benefit.” In 1861, the vice president of the Confederacy similarly declared that it was a ...