Good evening. I am glad to be here with you for the first lecture in the Supreme Court Historical Societys series, this Supreme Court and the civil war revisited. The timing is just right, for this year marks the 150th anniversary of the war between the states. A bit about the society which i joined many years before i got this good job. And i remain among the legions of supporters of the societys many endeavors. Some of them dorothy mentioned. This society has been a key player in improving public understanding of the court and its role in the constitutional framework of our government. Regular attendees of these lectures know how engaging they have been. And i appreciate, too, Something Else dorothy mentioned. The societys preening program for high schoolteachers and the books produced by the society are works well conceived and good to read. Among my favorites, claire cushmans court watches, eyewitness accounts in Supreme Court history. It is a collection of welltold anecdotes about
The case than concerned its ship and cargo and the issue of freedom was derivative. A slave sues his master. Ironically, paying close attention to the stipulated facts does not bring the image into focus. It renders the image less clear. That a missouri slave would sue a new york master for freedom is baffling, to say the least. Even more perplexing is the question of how the case ever happened at all. Among the famous and famously notorious cases, the circumstances of dred scott are the least well understood. The facts are stipulated on appeal. Reading them leaves the unsettling sense that there was something missing. Several justices in the opinions written by each of them repeat the fact statement verbatim in texts of their several opinions. And this choice to repeat the stipulated facts verbatim in the texts signals that perhaps the justices themselves found the facts somewhat incongruous because they did not paraphrase the salient features. They simply repeated the whole. By the t
Youve been watching cspans American History tv. We want to hear fro you have been watching American History tv. Follow us on twitter at cspan history and connect with us at facebook. Com cspan history. Make comments on our website at cspan. Org history. We would like to tell you about our other tv programs. Be with us every saturday at 8 00 and midnight for lectures in history. Join students in the classroom to hear lectures on tops ranging from the American Revolution to the 9 11 terrorist attacks. Lectures in history every saturday at 8 00 and midnight eastern here on American History tv on cspan 3. Up next on American History tv, history professor talks about the dred scott and sanford case. Dred scott was a slave and sued his family for freedom after they had been moved. The court ruled that slave or free blacks could not sue in federal court because they could not be u. S. Citizens. The professor talks about the repercussions of the decision and why the location in missouri was ve
Washington University in St. Louis faculty hosted a one-week seminar designed to connect high school teachers to experts and resources in local Black history and culture. Participants visited University Libraries collections, explored primary sources that document life in St. Louis and took a field trip to Greenwood Cemetery, the oldest Black cemetery in the region.
Student asked University of Surrey for help two days before body was found, inquest hears
Sarah Clarke was in her final year at the University of Surrey when she died
An inquest into the death of Sarah Clarke, expected to last three days, is being held at Woking Coroner s Court (Image: Mark Lundrigan)
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