In nineteen twenty-five, a young science teacher in the southern state of Tennessee challenged the state's new teaching law.

VOA: special.2011.01.13

In the trial, two same-sex couples argue that the state ban violates equal protection rights under the United States Constitution.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

By the end of nineteen sixty-two, there were more than forty bills in state legislatures proposing to control pesticides.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

He became a lawyer. He moved to another northeastern state -- Massachusetts -- where he became active in Republican Party politics.

VOA: special.2010.12.23

Two thousand eight hundred ninety-five centimeters of snow fell at the Mount Baker Ski area in the northwestern state of Washington.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

Many are about his life growing up in the state of New Jersey, where he was born in nineteen forty-nine.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

In nineteen twenty-two, two stations in New York State joined together to broadcast the championship game of American baseball.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

That is because it became a state in eighteen seventy-six, exactly one hundred years after the nation declared its independence.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

She was eighty-four years old. She was buried near the remains of her husband in the state of South Carolina.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

The Evergreen State College,for example, was established in nineteen sixty-seven and has never used letter or number grades.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

The State Department combined several programs dating to the Cold War into the current program in nineteen ninety-eight.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

Today we tell you about one of the few prisons in America that offer college-level classes: San Quentin State Prison in California.

VOA: special.2011.07.07

In the summer of eighteen fifty-eight, two candidates campaigned across the state of Illinois for a seat in the United States Senate.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

Throughout the south and middle-west, they succeeded in electing agricultural candidates as governors, state legislators,Senators, and members of the House of Representatives.

VOA: special.2010.06.10