A painting by a Manhattan artist is going down in Kansas history. Phyllis Garibay-Coon, the first woman to have a painting ...

Its history has been long and complex ... Alice Paul celebrating the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, in 1920. Three years later, she wrote the first ...

Ida Porter Boyer, a Schuylkill County woman who played a leading role in the women’s suffrage movement, is on track to being ...

Black activists championed the idea of birthright citizenship long before it was introduced to the U.S. Constitution , reports ...

The struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment started more than a century ago when leading suffragist Alice Paul first proposed it shortly after the ratification of the 19th Amendment ... Here are some ...

The federal ban on handgun sales to adults younger than 21 violates the Second Amendment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...

To understand why, it's helpful to know the long history of the proposed amendment, and the legal hurdles it still faces. Activist Alice Paul pushed for the Equal Rights Amendment after the 19th ...

Here are some key dates in the history of the effort to enact the Equal Rights Amendment: Dec. 10, 1923 The first draft of the ERA, written by Paul, is introduced in Congress by Sen. Charles ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

It was in 1951 that India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, amended the Constitution for the first time, because the "Constitution came in the way" of urgent social changes. A look at what led ...

held on July 19 and 20, 1848. Over 300 men and women attended. Over a hundred years ago, on December 14, 1923, a proposed amendment first ... (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images ...