Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified to the U.S. Constitution, granting U.S. citizenship to Black Americans after ...

Reconstruction amendments As most students do learn, the U.S. gained three constitutional amendments that extended civil and political rights to newly freed African Americans following the Civil War.

The Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, where the first Convention for Women's Rights was held on July 19 and 20, 1848. Over 300 men and women attended. Over a hundred years ago, on December 14 ...

On March 22, 1972, the U.S. Senate passed the Equal Rights Amendment, sending the measure to the states for ratification in order for it to become a part of the U.S. Constitution, the ultimate law of ...

The Constitution has guaranteed our freedoms and rights for over 200 years. In this regular series, Dean Leonard Baynes with the University of Houston Law Center looks at the Amendments and how they ...

The three post–Civil War constitutional amendments offered the United States a second, more democratic founding. Preserving this framework is essential. It became clear to me that the framers ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

A deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment expired in 1982, but some states ratified it afterward. Some scholars argue the deadline is unconstitutional. Other legal experts said the ...

In one of those why the hell not? gestures open to a president down to his last weekend in office, Joe Biden declared the Equal Rights Amendment ratified and thus the 28th Amendment to the U.S.

President Joe Biden announced Friday that the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered a ratified addition to the U.S. Constitution, making a symbolic statement that's unlikely to alter a ...