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Curtis Woods, near what is now the Morningside neighborhood and Springside Park, was a favorite for church picnics, hikes, bird watching, foraging and wildflower picking. It was also a favorite
A historian of the conflict traces the path to disunion in the 1850s — and the lessons it holds for our own era of deep division.
Dred Scott decision, formally Dred Scott v. John F.A. Sandford, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States; and that the Missouri Compromise (1820), which had declared free all territories west of Missouri and north of latitude 36°30′, was unconstitutional. The decision added fuel to the sectional controversy and pushed the country close...