With the centennial anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment approaching, a look back at the surprising history of giving women the vote Liza Mundy The humor magazine Puck—a pre-TV ...

Although success was often slow in coming, by the time the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920, thirty states and one territory already permitted women to vote in at least some aspect in the ...

Tuesday marks a full century since the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which says that the right to vote “should not be denied or abridged” on the basis of sex. We look back to the path to ...

Today marks the 89th anniversary of the 19th Amendment going into effect (which ... be involved in quite a few events to celebrate the 90th anniversary of women's suffrage next year as well as working ...

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, ...

One hundred years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, The Vote tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative ...

2020 8:03 a.m. Tennessee tipped the scales to codify women’s suffrage in the U.S. Constitution 100 years ago Tuesday, becoming the 26th state to ratify the 19th Amendment on Aug. 18, 1920.

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 ...

A comprehensive new book, Elaine Weiss’ The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote (out on March 6, 2018), goes inside the fiery final debate over the 19th Amendment. While we know how ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) — In March 1920, West Virginia ratified the 19th Amendment in a historic vote with the rest of the nation watching, and the Amendment was approved in the Mountain State ...