An 1804 graduate of Yale, John C. Calhoun was one of the great political power brokers of the mid 19 th Century, along with ...

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.

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