The Supreme Court's 1857 Dred Scott decision denied citizenship to African Americans and enabled slavery's westward expansion. It has long stood as a grievous instance of justice perverted by sectional politics. Austin Allen finds that the outcome of Dred Scott hinged not on a single issue slavery but on a web of assumptions, agendas, and commitments held collectively and individually by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney and his colleagues.
Allen carefully tracks arguments made by Taney Court justices in more than 1,600 reported cases in the two decades prior to Dred Scott and in its...
The Supreme Court's 1857 Dred Scott decision denied citizenship to African Americans and enabled slavery's westward expansion. It has long stood as...
The universe told a joke. Travis Nguyen doesn't get it. NOT YET. Commissioned to write the first book printed on paper in over a century, Nguyen sets out to uncover what really happened aboard the USCC Meno, a well-worn ship left over from the early days of space colonization when humanity sought to save themselves from a horrible pandemic. Cast as the reluctant author, Nguyen hopes to answer one of the greatest mysteries of his time: What really happened to the crew aboard the Meno, and what is so funny about it all? He discovers a tale that is at the same time chilling and hilarious. Part...
The universe told a joke. Travis Nguyen doesn't get it. NOT YET. Commissioned to write the first book printed on paper in over a century, Nguyen sets ...
