Vague phrasing in the state’s Revolutionary-era Constitution enfranchised women who met specific property requirements. A ...

News from around the Southland includes items from Beverly, New Lenox, Palos Hills, Frankfort, Palos Heights, Chicago Heights and more.

A rising wave of racist violence in the South prompted President Ulysses S. Grant to legal and military action against the Ku ...

After an investigation into California’s legal protection of biological males who identify as female competing in the same ...

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 ...

Declaring a class-action lawsuit, a federal judge issued a nationwide block of President Donald Trump s executive order on ...

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

Alva Belmont was a prominent Gilded Age socialite who married a Vanderbilt railroad heir. Later in life, she became a women's ...

Within hours of his inauguration, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would withhold U.S. citizenship from ...

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, ...

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 ...