For Alyssa Thiede, the curator at Hennepin History Museum, her connection to a new exhibit about an enslaved woman freed ...

This article is from the archive of our partner . Brazenly, in Citizens United, the court employed parallel logic to the syllogism embedded in the most repugnant ruling it ever made, the 1857 Dred ...

In 1833, a man named Dred Scott crossed a border. Scott didn’t traverse nations. Just a work trip, of sorts, from Missouri to Illinois. But as a slave in a pre-abolition (and rapidly fracturing) ...

The notorious Dred Scott decision held that Blacks were not citizens and therefore had no right to sue in federal court. Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., led the effort in the House to remove the Taney bust.