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Vague phrasing in the state’s Revolutionary-era Constitution enfranchised women who met specific property requirements. A ...
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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 ...
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The United States’ founders firmly rejected King George III and the entire idea of monarchy 249 years ago, on July 4, 1776.
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 ...
Alva Belmont was a prominent Gilded Age socialite who married a Vanderbilt railroad heir. Later in life, she became a women's ...
Of all the art forms, theater may be the best at making the distant past feel immediate. In the right storytelling hands, ...
The Declaration of Independence wrote that, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among ...
The Balkinization blog is running a symposium, based on an earlier in-person conference, on “Free Speech in Crisis and the Limits of the First Amendment“. My contribution is an excerpt from an essay I ...