Kulick: Learn about women's suffrage and the fight against the Tocks Island Dam project at upcoming history talks.

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 ...

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 came before the United States Congress. It read in its ...

The struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment started in 1923 when leading suffragist Alice Paul first proposed it shortly after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the ...

The status of women voting or running for office in North Dakota was a gray area in February and March of 1920.

The14th Amendment was intended to correct the moral wrongs of slavery. But it has been misunderstood and reinterpreted in cases involving workdays, schools, train cars and birth control.

President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We asked two experts in constitutional and immigration law to walk us through ...

In July 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final rules requiring public companies to report material ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...