The Democratic Party chose for its presidential candidate a hero of the Civil War -- General Winfield Scott Hancock of Pennsylvania.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

He told him that a strong decision in the Dred Scott case might do much to bring peace to the country.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

Today we tell about the life and work of one of America's greatest music writers: Scott Joplin, the King of Ragtime.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

And they discuss his influence in the Supreme Court ruling in the case of a slave from Missouri named Dred Scott.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

Many experts also think Scott Joplin's opera "Treemonisha" included incidents of his life with his mother after Giles Joplin left.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

He then won a big victory in the general election over the candidate of the Whig Party, General Winfield Scott.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

Scott Brown won a seat in Massachusetts that had been held by Democrat Ted Kennedy for almost fifty years.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

Scott was sold in Missouri to an army doctor who took him to Illinois and then went into the Wisconsin territory.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

Dred Scott demanded his freedom, because of the years he had spent in places where slavery was illegal.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

It said the Missouri Compromise was a violation of the United States Constitution, and that Dred Scott was not a free man.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

The old general who commanded the Union forces, Winfield Scott,did not want to rush his men into battle.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

University of Tasmania scientist Scott Ling says there is evidence that they have been eating the sea urchins.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

The earliest known copy of the poem in Francis Scott Key's own handwriting is housed at the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore.

VOA: special.2011.03.07

Wisconsin's newly elected governor, Scott Walker, says limits are needed on labor unions to help cut a deficit in the state budget.

VOA: special.2011.02.25

And it got powder burned the night Francis Scott Key sat watching it, Writing 'Say Can You See.'

VOA: special.2010.07.02

Scott Clark is a professor of environmental health at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in Ohio.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

Three Whigs wanted to be nominated: President Millard Fillmore, Secretary of State Daniel Webster and General Winfield Scott.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

Here is a perfect example. Scott Joplin and John Stark published "A Breeze From Alabama" in nineteen-oh-two.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

The Army chief,General Scott, warned Lincoln that it was too late to get supplies to Fort Sumter.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

This did not happen. The Dred Scott decision did not calm the storm that divided the nation.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

Scott's owner raised the questions: Did Congress have the Constitutional power to close a territory to slavery?

VOA: special.2009.05.14

This program was written and produced by Mario Ritter with reporting from Scott Bobb and Parke Brewer.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

But that same year,Coretta Scott King established the Martin Luther King Junior Center for Nonviolent Social Change.

VOA: special.2011.01.17

Then the chief justice took up the question of the free territory in which Scott had lived.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

General Winfield Scott had captured the port of Vera Cruz and was ready to attack Mexico City.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

Scott Sampson says it is one of the last great dinosaur bone-yards in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.10.05