SOURCE: "Their Rights and Nothing More: A History of The Revolution, 1868-70," in Journalism Quarterly, Vol. 53, No. 2, Summer, 1976, pp. 242-51.

In the following essay, Masel-Walters presents a history of the Revolution, the feminist newspaper published by Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Men, their rights and nothing more; Women, their rights and nothing less.

Such was the goal of suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and of The Revolution, the newspaper they published from 1868-1870. Though a just aim, it was distant because, in the 19th century, women had few rights, least of all the right to vote. But neither the suffragists nor their publication lived to see their goal realized. Despite this failure, The Revolution had an important place in the history of suffrage journalism and the feminist struggle. The first major national publication concerned with feminine equality, The Revolution championed not only voting rights but...