Suffragettes rallied for women's right to vote in America. On August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified, granting women the right to vote. However, the law largely applied to white women ...

This week, a special focus on the songs of the year that kicked off the roaring decade: 1920. 1920 was a much different time in America: prohibition went into effect, dial telephones were starting ...

She ends Reconstruction in 1920, when women gained the right to vote, rather than at the traditional end date of 1877, when federal forces pulled out of the South and allowed white Southerners to ...

A view of a busy boardwalk at Coney Island in Brooklyn in the 1920’s. An exterior view of the Tombs prison in New York City, showing the Bridge of Sighs which connects the prison to the ...

As of January 1920—just months before the 19th Amendment was ratified—women living in these 20 states and territories were already casting their ballots in local, state, and federal elections.