The former slave Dred Scott lived three years in the 1830s on today’s Arsenal Island, and a new historical marker honors his life and the way he changed American history.

Lynne Jackson speaks at This is the Place Heritage Park. Jackson has been involved in racial reconciliation efforts previously and was instrumental in getting the first-ever Dred Scott statue erected ...

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Dred and Harriet Scott sued for their freedom based on having lived in free territories, a legal strategy that had previously succeeded in Missouri. In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v.

Two people with ties to a fraught history gathered last week in the nation's capital. What binds them is a Supreme Court case from 1857, when a man named Dred Scott sued for his freedom. Lynne Jackson ...

Editor’s Note: A professor of law at Yale University, Fred Rodell’s latest book, is Nine Men, a political history of the U.S. Supreme Court. A RESPONSIBLE if somewhat sectionally slanted journal was ...

In January, 2011, the House of Representatives undertook a recitation of the United States Constitution on the House floor. Lawmakers started with “We the People” and took turns reading the text aloud ...

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Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Guests provide background information on the Dred Scott v. Sandford case. Professors Martha Jones and Christopher Bracey provide background ...