EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – The El Paso chapter of the League of Women Voters will host an event August 22 to commemorate the ...
With the midterms approaching, the Trump administration and its allies seem desperate to suppress the vote. The president has pressed Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, a package of legislation ...
"What I hope the book club takes away is the richness of the story, because the story has been flattened and hasn't been ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Today, American citizens can vote regardless of race or gender, but that hasn't always been the case. When the U.S. was founded ...
The 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, guaranteeing American women the right to vote, celebrates a big birthday on Tuesday, as it was passed by both chambers of Congress 100 years ago ...
The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920. But the fight for women's suffrage started decades earlier. Dr. Martha Jones: "Many of the early womens' rights advocates in the United States ...
The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the Women's Suffrage Amendment, prohibited the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to the citizens of our country on the ...
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! Smithsonian Associates program coordinator and author Rebecca Roberts details the passage and ratification of the 19th Amendment. The Nineteenth ...
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 ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Holly Corbett covers bias, workplace culture, and social movements. The 19th Amendment is part of a larger story about voting ...
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 ...