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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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, ...

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

Of the many Spanish-made firearms to emerge throughout the 19th and 20th century, one of the most recognizable is the Star ...

Tensions between religion and science erupted in a hot and humid courtroom in Dayton, Tenn., 100 years ago this month.