Selected Bibliography
from The State Historical Society of Missouri

Articles in the Missouri Historical Review [REF F550 M691]

• Ehrlich, Walter. “Was the Dred Scott Case Valid?” v. 63, no. 3 (April 1969), pp. 317-328.
• Foley, William E. “Slave Freedom Suits Before Dred Scott: The Case of Marie Jean Scypion's Descendants.” v. 79, no. 1 (October 1984), pp. 1-23.
• Hamm, Thomas D. “A Quaker View of Black St. Louis in 1841.” v. 98, no. 2 (January 2004), pp. 115-120.
• “One Hundredth Anniversary of the Dred Scott Decision.” v. 51, no. 4 (July 1957), pp. 425-426.
• Schwartz, Harold. “The Controversial Dred Scott Decision.” v. 54, no. 3 (April 1960), pp. 262-272.

Articles from the Newspaper Collection

• “Dred Scott Case Celebrated Here.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch. March 7, 1957.
• “Dred Scott Dead.” St. Louis Evening News and Intelligencer. September 20, 1858.
• “Dred Scott Dead.” Liberty Weekly Tribune. October 1, 1858, 1-4.
• “Dred Scott Free At Last, Himself and His Family Emancipated.” St. Louis Daily Evening News. May 26, 1857.
• Kremer, Gary R. “Dred Scott Case to be Showcased in Archives.” Jefferson City News Tribune. January 16, 2000.
• Price, Bob. “Slavery Issue Passed the Point of No Return 100 Years Ago.”Kansas City Star.March 5, 1957.
• “Roswell M. Field was Attorney for Dred Scott.” Boonville Weekly Advertiser.January 22, 1886.

Books and Articles

• “Artifacts as Storytellers: The Dred Scott Portrait.” Missouri Historical Society Magazine. Jan/Feb 2000. p. 7.
• Benton, Thomas Hart. Examination of the Dred Scott Case. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1858. [F552 B446h in case]
• Bryan, John A. “The Blow Family and Their Slave Dred Scott, Part I.” The Bulletin. St. Louis, MO: Missouri Historical Society. v. 4, no 4 (July 1948), pp. 223-231; Part II, v. 5, no. 1 (October 1948), pp. 19-33. [REF F550 M696]
• Christensen, Lawrence O., William E. Foley, Gary R. Kremer, and Kenneth H. Winn, eds. Dictionary of Missouri Biography. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. pp. 295-296; 665-666; 679-681. [REF F508 D561]
• Ehrlich, Walter. They Have No Rights: Dred Scott's Struggle for Freedom. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979. [REF 552 Eh89]
• Ewing, Elbert William K. Legal and Historical Status of the Dred Scott Decision. Washington, DC: Cobden Publishing Company, 1909. [REF F552 EW 54]
• Fehrenbacher, Don E. The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. [REF F552 F322]
• Finkelman, Paul. Dred Scott v. Sandford: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford Books, 1998. [REF F552 F495]
• Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, June 27, 1857.
• Kaufman, Kenneth C. Dred Scott's Advocate: A Biography of Roswell M. Field. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1996. [REF F552 K62]
• Latham, Frank Brown. The Dred Scott Decision, March 6, 1857; Slavery and the Supreme Court's Self-Inflicted Wound. New York: F. Watts, 1968. [REF IJ L347d]
• Maltz, Earl M. Dred Scott and the Politics of Slavery. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2007. [REF F552 M299]