Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Born in Maryland, Roger Taney was a lawyer, politician, and the fifth chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. During ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — Writer and actor Kate Taney Billingsley has been thinking a lot about America’s racial history and her family’s part in it. One of her ancestors had an outsized role. Billingsley’s ...

The House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday that would remove Confederate statues from the Capitol. According to the Associated Press, the bill passed with a 285-120 vote, with the Democrats ...

ANNAPOLIS — Legislation moving through Annapolis could put a statue of Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, a Maryland native known for writing the pro-slavery Dred Scott opinion, in ...

According to current legal opinion, the Dred Scott case was the Supreme Court’s worst. The Civil War was waiting in the wings. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes called it a “self-inflicted wound.” ...

Abust of Roger Brooke Taney's angular, haunted face stares out from atop a pedestal at Frederick City Hall, and he is featured prominently on lists of the city's most revered former residents. A ...

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