Welcome to part two of our three-part series on the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. In this episode we discuss the Taney court (1836-1864) through the Fuller court (1888-1910). We break down two of the most landmark decisions of these courts with a discussion of Dred Scott vs. Sandford (1857) and Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896). Join us for a discussion of judicial overreach, precursors to Civil War, and the codification of racial segregation in the Jim Crow era.
So in the age of Covid 19 many educators and students have found themseleves needing to use tools they are unfamiliar with. This series...
On June 28, 1969, what would normally have been a rather routine police bust of an unlicensed bar on New York City's west side,...
When people are asked to comment on the most famous figures of the American Revolution, the list is almost entirely men, with a few...