Many people know the textbook highlights of our state’s history but did you know about the Alabamian who created Jackie ...

The president has shown deference to the judicial branch. Will it show him any? A president ignoring a court order would, ...

A New York Times column by Jamelle Bouie argues that Vice President JD Vance has been sidelined from real power in Donald ...

S. A. Cosby has a hit book at every turn, and this time it’s “King of Ashes” (Pine & Cedar/Flatiron Books, 352 pgs., $28.99 ...

The vice president envisions a world of tiered citizenship, where entry depends on heritage and status rests on obedience.

Drawing his title from Lincoln’s 1858 “House Divided” speech, independent scholar Hyslop, author of several works on the American West, makes the case that in opening territories to slavery, westward ...

Shutterstock The Supreme Court and Dred Scott v. John Sanford Dred Scott fought for freedom in court after living in free ...

Opinion: In effect, the U.S. Supreme Court has opened a "Pandora's box." Just like the Supreme Court did in deciding the fate of Dred Scott.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) pushed back against “hogwash” criticism against President Donald Trump’s navigation in ending the war in Ukraine, contending that the president can be “trusted” to ...

Her opinion conjured the jurisprudence of the Dred Scott era when it warned that the court’s new decision creates a “two-tiered scheme” in which someone’s citizenship status depends on ...

In one of its most notorious cases, Dred Scott, the Supreme Court in 1857 denied citizenship to the descendants of slaves, helping prompt the Civil War.

After the Civil War, Congress explicitly rejected the Dred Scott decision, first by passing legislation reversing the ruling and then by writing the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which ...