The first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified following vigorous national debate on this day in history, Dec. 15, 1791. Their passage came ...

A young girl tends the spinning machine at a cotton mill in North Carolina. Children worked adult hours for pennies in mills and factories all over the United States until reforms came with the Fair ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Donald Trump’s election win, aided in part by online disinformation, has reignited the debate over whether the First Amendment’s ...

This is a military historian’s view of the Second Amendment, which, in a historical context, is a military clause directly linked to national defense and the kind of military force required to meet ...

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"Making Amends," the title of the Clinton Presidential Center's new special exhibition, is unlikely to set hearts throbbing. But its topic -- the 27 amendments to the U.S. Constitution -- continues to ...

Congress passed the 19th Amendment, granting the right to vote to women, on this day in history, June 4, 1919 — sending the text of the amendment to the states for ratification. The amendment read, ...

The statue "Authority of Law" by artist James Earle Fraser is seen outside the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C., in 2010. There is something cruelly ironic about reading the recent ...