A three-year-old downtown site has been tapped for an important network—one that backers hope will drive even more interest ...

Completion of the Old Courthouse renovations caps over a decade of work to revamp and reimagine the Gateway Arch National ...

The Old Courthouse was the site of several landmark cases, including the Dred Scott case that challenged slavery, and Virginia Minor’s fight for women’s voting rights. RELATED: St. Louisan's ...

Lynne M. Jackson (second from left) is the great-great granddaughter of Dred and Harriet Scott showing Randy Burkett, Marcy Hart, and Vickie Hayden around the new renavations and exhibits at the ...

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Thursday in its first case stemming from the blitz of actions that have marked the ...

She said notables buried at the cemetery include Harriet Robinson Scott, who with her husband Dred Scott unsuccessfully sued for their freedom; Lucy Delany, the author of an 1892 book documenting ...

The 14th Amendment’s guarantee that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” are citizens was ratified in 1868, a response to the Supreme Court’s infamous Dred Scott decision ...

It effectively overturned the notorious Dred Scott decision, in which the Supreme Court held that Black people, no matter their status, were not citizens. Since at least 1898 and the Supreme Court ...

This clause effectively overturned the notorious Dred Scott decision of 1857, in which the Supreme Court held that Black people, no matter whether or not they were enslaved, were not citizens.

It effectively overturned the notorious Dred Scott decision, in which the Supreme Court held that Black people, no matter their status, were not citizens. Since at least 1898 and the Supreme Court ...