EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – The El Paso chapter of the League of Women Voters will host an event August 22 to commemorate the ...

Women's Equality Day is celebrated in the U.S. on Aug. 26 each year. Since its inception in 1971, this day commemorates the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A member of the League of Women Voters participates in a demonstration to protest the lack of voting rights for the citizens of ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Smithsonian Associates program coordinator and author Rebecca Roberts details the passage and ratification of the 19th Amendment. The Nineteenth ...

On Aug. 18, 1920, a 24-year-old state legislator from East Tennessee walked into the Tennessee House chamber wearing a red rose on his lapel. Red meant no. The chamber was deadlocked 48-48. The 19th ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Misty Heggeness highlighted the significance of Harry Burn as it relates to the 19th Amendment. Author Misty Heggeness highlighted the ...

In 1920, the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution meant that women across the country could no longer be denied the vote because of their sex.To mark its 100th anniversary, the ...

In high school, I had reading phases spanning myriad genres, ranging from an intense interest in wild fantasy sagas to a soft spot for memoirs and especially a strange fixation for historical fiction ...

Aug. 18 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1227, Genghis Khan, the Mongol leader who forged an empire stretching from the east coast of China west to the Aral Sea, died in camp during a campaign ...