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 ...

Tuesday marks a very special and important anniversary in the U.S. — 100 years since women got the right to vote. The Constitution's 19th Amendment was ratified on Aug. 18, 1920. The House of ...

Suffragist heroes Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony seized control of the feminist narrative of the 19th century. Their influential history of the movement still governs popular ...

This August will mark 100 years since women won the right to vote with the ratification of the 19th Amendment. To celebrate, the New York Philharmonic has commissioned compositions by 19 women for an ...

The activism of Black women often predated that of famous white suffragists—and still informs debates over what history is ...

Women’s Equality Day, August 26th, 2020, celebrates the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. A major milestone for gender parity was reached on August 18, 1920, when women won a hard-fought battle ...

After decades of argument, Congress passed the 19th amendment, allowing women to vote, in June 1919. It needed to be ratified by 36 states to become law. Nebraska legislators voted unanimously on ...

The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the Women’s Suffrage Amendment, prohibited the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to the citizens of our country on the ...

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, which granted ...