Ryan McClure, executive director of Gateway Arch Park Foundation, talks with the dome under construction photo behind him on Wednesday, March 26, 2025. A view of the ornate dome from the second floor ...

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, where ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote a column that included a brief discussion of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, the 1857 case that both invalidated the Missouri Compromise and closed the ...

The Dred Scott Supreme Court case (1857) is relevant today. The justices decided the states had the right to legalize slavery; thus, guaranteeing the constitutional right of slave owners in the ...

For the first time in over a century, children will soon be born in the United States without the benefit of birthright citizenship, thanks to a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday. Although ...

ST. LOUIS — The site of a historic court decision that fanned the flames of racial injustice leading up to the American Civil War has been restored for only the second time in its history. Renovations ...