In 1920, women won the right to vote with the adoption of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In 1929, English ...

Today, all American citizens are eligible to vote irrespective of race and gender, but that hasn’t always been the case.

The direct election of Senators, through the Seventeenth Amendment, made the Senate more amenable to electoral pressure for temperance. Although the Nineteenth Amendment, guaranteeing women the ...

The ratification of the 19th Amendment led to the single greatest ... In this series of essays, American Experience, in collaboration with the GroundTruth Project’s Report for America ...

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the Tenth Amendment was cited in support of the doctrine of “dual federalism,” which maintained that the national and state governments were ...

The In Her Own Right collection reflects women’s struggles for justice leading to the passage of the 19th Amendment. This collection was ... as well as interpretive essays based on the digital ...

Women on U.S. currency include Susan B. Anthony, Sacagawea, Helen Keller, Maya Angelou, Dr. Sally Ride, Wilma Mankiller, and ...

As we approach National Voter Registration Day, it’s crucial to reflect on the significance of the right to vote — a fundamental pillar of democracy that many fought tirelessly to ...

Before taking on the new position, NYPD Inspector Joseph Hayward spent the bulk of his 25-year career in Brooklyn and Queens.

In anticipation of the 2020 centennial anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ... Dunbar (later Dunbar-Nelson), the influential poet and journalist whose papers, housed at Morris ...

When that movement succeeded with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 ... frequently gave speeches against slavery, and wrote essays for antislavery publications, including the ...

Dr. Ralph de la Torre, through a letter sent by his attorneys, says he can’t appear to answer senator’s questions because he ...