Stanton and Anthony launched The Revolution, a pioneering newspaper advocating suffrage and women's rights.
On January 9, 1868, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony began publishing The Revolution, a weekly newspaper based in New York City devoted to women's rights, suffrage, and broader social reform. Stanton served as a primary editor and contributor, using the paper as a vehicle for her increasingly radical views on marriage, divorce law, labor, and women's economic independence.
The paper's masthead motto, "Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less," captured Stanton's uncompromising philosophy. The Revolution covered topics considered highly controversial for the era, including equal pay for equal work, liberalized divorce laws, and critiques of organized religion's treatment of women, distinguishing it from more moderate suffragist publications.
Though financially troubled and short-lived—ceasing publication in 1872 after facing significant debt—The Revolution proved historically important as one of the first sustained national platforms specifically dedicated to women's rights journalism. It provided Stanton and Anthony an independent voice separate from mainstream newspapers, which often marginalized or ridiculed suffrage activism.
The publication also reflected and contributed to a growing rift within the women's movement over strategy and alliances, particularly regarding the Fifteenth Amendment, foreshadowing the 1869 split that would create rival suffrage organizations.