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 ...

A century after 19th Amendment, Gloria Steinem on what challenges remain Tuesday marks a full century since the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which says that the right to vote “should not ...

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 ...

Wong Kim Ark was not the only Chinese American San Franciscan — or even the first — to shape a fundamental part of the 14th Amendment. The San Francisco cook’s late 19th-century struggle ...

Women ring "justice bells" as they walk down both sides of State Street in Bristol on Wednesday at noon to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment ratification.

The United States’ founders firmly rejected King George III and the entire idea of monarchy 249 years ago, on July 4, 1776.

Because of the Nineteenth Amendment, a woman’s right to vote is secure in all 50 states, no matter who is elected president or which judges are appointed to the federal bench.

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 ...