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 ...

The Prohibition era in the United States, spanning from 1920 to 1933, is often characterized by speakeasies, gangsters, and ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin will kick off a fundraising campaign on Thursday for a ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...