This is part of an occasional series of Yahoo News articles and accompanying videos on how the issues America faced in the 1920s — aka “the Roaring ’20s” — have echoes in our own decade, a century ...

The Emancipation Proclamation and the 19th Amendment have been added to the Archives’s rotunda, the first permanent changes ...

The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which secured for women the right to vote, was ratified on this day in history, August 18, 1920. It is considered one of the great landmarks in the fight ...

The 19th Amendment was passed by Congress on June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, granting women the right to vote. First introduced in Congress in 1878, the 19th Amendment was not easily ...

The Fifteenth Amendment was the last of three Reconstruction Amendments. The first two were ratified in 1865 and 1868, respectively. The 15th Amendment was a milestone for civil rights. The amendment ...

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 ...

It was ratified by the states on August 18, 1920. Our Constitution was ratified in 1789. Women had no federal constitutional right to vote. A few states periodically gave women states’ voting rights, ...

Aug. 26 is the date of the anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. It’s not the best-known date in history. Nor is the amendment itself as recognizable as, say, the First, the Second or ...

Shut up and dribble. Stay in your lane. The dismissive comments aimed at athletes are constant and they are no different than those levied at rappers in 1990. That sparked the formation of Rock the ...