Last week marked the anniversary of Congress passing the 19th Amendment.In 1919, that Constitutional amendment gave women the ...

On this day in 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was signed into law by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby. The 19th Amendment prohibits the United States and its ...

Pennsylvania was one of the states that hadn’t ratified the proposed 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which would prohibit states from denying citizens the right to vote because of ...

WASHINGTON (WCSC) - The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified on Aug. 18, 1920, gave women in the United States the right to vote. South Carolina’s state legislature had rejected the ...

The bulletin moved just after 1 p.m. on Aug. 18, 1920, conveying the breaking news that the 19th Amendment had been ratified giving women the constitutional right to vote. The AP had been covering 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 ...

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 ...

After decades of argument, Congress passed the 19th amendment, allowing women to vote, in June 1919. It needed to be ratified by 36 states to become law. Nebraska legislators voted unanimously on ...

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 ...

Aug. 26 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1920, eight days after it was ratified, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect -- giving women the right to vote. In 1964, Democrats ...

Aug. 26 (UPI) --While the 19th Amendment was ratified on Aug. 20, 1920, it was certified on Aug. 26, which is why Americans celebrate Women's Equality Day annually on that day. After 105 years, ...

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 ...