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

Seneca Falls is set to host Convention Days 2025 from July 18–20, celebrating the legacy of the 1848 women’s rights ...

Former Tennessee Attorney General Paul G. Summers writes this regular column on the history of the U.S. Constitution.

The suffrage movement, like other social movements before and after, often reflected the racism, nativism and other prejudices that pervaded America as a whole.

When public school teachers return to classrooms this fall, they will confront a new legal landscape giving parents veto ...

Reading and studying the Constitution are time well spent. Let us all learn more about our Founding Fathers and their ...

As the suffragist movement gained momentum, women mobilized to oppose the 19th Amendment. The anti-suffragists became a nationwide force that would influence later generations of conservative women.

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

Even a century after Tennessee became the last state to ratify the 19th Amendment on Aug. 18, 1920, there are still a lot of misunderstandings about what that 39-word addition to the Constitution ...

1913: Women in Illinois were successful in gaining partial suffrage. They became the first women east of the Mississippi River to have the right to vote in presidential elections. Vintage Chicago ...

Andre Nichols, who has been disenfranchised since 2014, has helped more than 100 people register to vote. He was one whose suffrage requests died this year.

Suffrage at 100: A Visual History How did American women win the right to vote? These images help bring their decades-long movement into focus. By Jennifer HarlanVeronica Chambers and Jennifer ...