Vague phrasing in the state’s Revolutionary-era Constitution enfranchised women who met specific property requirements. A ...

Born on Manhattan’s Delancey Street and raised in the Bronx, my great-aunt Libby lost her birthright citizenship at age 20 ...

The new post-Johnson Amendment regime is bound to be helpful to Republicans but unlikely to advance the cause of religion.

After an investigation into California’s legal protection of biological males who identify as female competing in the same ...

A rising wave of racist violence in the South prompted President Ulysses S. Grant to legal and military action against the Ku ...

Alva Belmont was a prominent Gilded Age socialite who married a Vanderbilt railroad heir. Later in life, she became a women's ...

The Declaration of Independence wrote that, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among ...

News from around the Southland includes items from Beverly, New Lenox, Palos Hills, Frankfort, Palos Heights, Chicago Heights and more.

The University of North Texas will pay $725,000 to settle a First Amendment lawsuit from Professor Timothy Jackson, following ...

Lee introduced a now-removed amendment to Trump’s policy megabill that mandated the sale of up to 3 million acres. It did ...

John C. Fremont Elementary has been renamed after two Mexican American civil rights trailblazers who were part of the ...