An online resource offers itineraries for visiting Missouri historic sites tied to Scott Joplin, Dred Scott, jazz history, ...

The film discusses the historical context leading to the American Civil War, focusing on the sectional tensions between free ...

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom ... in 1830, to St. Louis, Missouri. Two years later Peter Blow died; Scott was subsequently bought by army surgeon Dr. John Emerson, who ...

ST. LOUIS – A huge piece of history sits right in downtown St. Louis, and even more emphasis has been placed on preserving the stories that played out at the old courthouse. Dred and Harriet ...

Into this atmosphere came for decision the Dred Scott case, started in a federal district court in Missouri while the Kansas-Nebraska Act was winging its way through Congress, but dealing with ...

The court also declared the 1820 Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, thus permiting slavery in all of the country's territories. The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford.

The lives and lived experience of two women who won their independence from enslavement, and bore witness to history, were shared Feb. 6 at the Phelps County Courthouse.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey defended ... Court inflicted on the United States of America in the form of the Dred Scott decision," Bailey said. "Again, the 14th Amendment was intended ...

Of course, quite unlike Dred Scott, Dobbs did no such thing ... The ruling purported to invalidate the Missouri Compromise of 1820. It was touted by the aging, Pennsylvania-born Democrat in ...

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 kept an uneasy ... the Republican Party with the political aim of opposing slavery Dred Scott was an enslaved people who had lived with his "owner" in a free ...