After a year's delay, congressmen, mainly Republican, worked quickly to pass the woman suffrage amendment hoping it would be ratified in time for new voters to show their gratitude in the 1920 ...

Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, has made history as the first woman and the first Black ...

it was preceded by decades of organising and protests - spearheaded by leading figures of US women's suffrage like Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The 19th amendment is considered to ...

Members of the National American Woman Suffrage Association organized statewide “Votes for Women” campaigns. They used buttons, signs, and gimmicks like the ring parade spinner to promote their cause ...

The American women's struggle for the right to vote was a long and arduous one spanning several decades before the 19th ...

(We shall discuss that amendment in due course.) Women could not vote until the 19th Amendment was implemented. It took a constitutional amendment to change that way of thinking. That was a little ...

Wells mosaic is also a monument to women’s suffrage Look closely at this ... Tuesday marks a full century since the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which says that the right to vote ...

After the United States entered the war, American suffragists strongly felt that if America could defend democracy abroad, they deserved it at home, in the form of votes for women. Beginning in ...

On Thursday,in conjunction with the Capitol Square Foundation’s Capitol Conversations’ evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, the Ohio Women’s Suffrage Monument ...

2020 8:03 a.m. Tennessee tipped the scales to codify women’s suffrage in the U.S. Constitution 100 years ago Tuesday, becoming the 26th state to ratify the 19th Amendment on Aug. 18, 1920.

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 ...

After generations of struggle for suffrage, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1919 and ratified in August 1920. To mark the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, ...