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The country has a checkered history on voting rights.

World War 1 Coinage by the US Mint includes the Walking Liberty Half Dollar. In 1914, British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey famously said of World War 1 , “The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.”

World War 1 Coinage by the US Mint includes the Walking Liberty Half Dollar. In 1914, British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey famously said of World War 1 , “The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.”

This Presidents Day (February 21), Americans should honor the memory of George Washington by defending his great legacy against the attacks of far-left educators, activists, politicians, and bureaucrats who have

“The Women of the Copper Country” by Mary Doria Russell gives a fictional account of the 1913 copper mining strike in Michigan.

"[Biden] has refused to do the one thing that looks the very most like America..."


Twenty-fourth Amendment, amendment (1964) to the Constitution of the United States that prohibited the federal and state governments from imposing poll taxes before a citizen could participate in a federal election. It was proposed on August 27, 1962, and ratified on January 23, 1964.

Fifteenth Amendment, amendment (1870) to the U.S. Constitution that guaranteed that the right to vote could not be denied based on ‘race, color, or previous condition of servitude.’ Its ratification effectively enfranchised African American men while denying the right to vote to women of all colors.

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would invalidate many state and federal laws that discriminate against women; its central underlying principle is that sex should not determine the legal rights of men or women. Learn more about the ERA.

It isn’t surprising that the secular movement in America has been characterized by historical discontinuities that, in a number of respects, resemble the amnesia that held back feminism for so long.