page_title: The Revolution (newspaper)
section_title: Establishing the newspaper
hierarchical_section_title: The Revolution (newspaper) / History / Stanton and Pillsbury editorship / Establishing the newspaper
caption_attribution_description: English: Caption reads: "PRINTING HOUSE SQUARE 1868." Credit reads: "LITH. W. C. ROGERS &amp; CO. FOR JOS. SHANNON'S MANUAL 1868." At the far right is the sign for The Revolution, the newspaper established by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1868.&#91;1&#93; It is below the sign for The World and above the sign for Scientific American. The location, 37 Park Row, is now a part of the Women's Rights Historic Sites and is marked with a sign designating it as "Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton Corner."&#91;2&#93; References ↑ Ward, Geoffrey C. Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, pp. 111-113. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1999. ISBN 0-375-40560-7. ↑ Revolution, the feminist periodical by Breanne Scanlon
context_page_description: The Revolution was a newspaper established by women's rights activists Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in New York City. It was published weekly between January 8, 1868 and February 17, 1872. With a combative style that matched its name, it primarily focused on women's rights, especially prohibiting discrimination against women voting, women's suffrage. It also covered other topics, however, such as politics, the labor movement and finance. Anthony managed the business aspects of the paper while Stanton was co-editor along with Parker Pillsbury, an abolitionist and a supporter of women's rights.
  Initial funding was provided by George Francis Train, a controversial businessman who supported women's rights but alienated many activists with his views on politics and race. The funding that he arranged was enough to start the newspaper but not enough to sustain it. After twenty-nine months, mounting debts forced Anthony to transfer the paper to Laura Curtis Bullard, a wealthy women's rights activist who gave it a less radical tone. The paper published its last issue less than two years later.
  Its significance was greater than its short lifespan would indicate.
context_section_description: Defying pressure to sever their relationship with Train, Stanton and Anthony instead made a deal with him to establish a weekly newspaper that they would operate with his financial backing, which he indicated could be as much as $100,000.
  Train and his associate David Melliss would have space to express their views, but otherwise Stanton and Anthony would be free to run the paper in the interests of women.
  Plans were quickly made plans for a national newspaper with a circulation goal that would make it as large as a major New York daily.
  Anthony hoped to grow it eventually into a daily paper with its own printing press, all owned and operated by women.
  The first issue of The Revolution was published on January 8, 1868, two months after the end of the AERA's Kansas campaign.  The newspaper was given its name, said Stanton and Anthony in its first issue, because "The name speaks its purpose.  It is to revolutionize."
  Stanton later elaborated that, "it is not the ballot alone that woman needs for her safety and protection, but a revolution in our political, religious and social systems; in fact the entire reorganization of society."  
  The paper generated publicity with its first issue by announcing that Anthony had convinced U.S. President Andrew Johnson to buy a subscription.
  The Revolution's offices were in New York City.  The paper was published weekly on quality newsprint, with 16 pages per issue and 3 columns per page. 
  Its publishers did not possess their own printing equipment but instead depended on the services of a print shop that paid its male and female employees on an equal basis.  
  Anthony managed the business aspects of the paper while Stanton was co-editor along with Parker Pillsbury.  Initially Stanton wrote most of the material related to women's rights.
  The newspaper's motto, prominently displayed on the front page, was, "Principle, not policy; Justice, not favors: Men, their rights and nothing more; Women, their rights and nothing less."
caption: Printing House Square in Manhattan in 1868, showing the sign for The Revolution's office at 37 Park Row at the far right below The World and above Scientific American
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