ResolvedThe American campaign for votes for women, in the words it used

About Resolved

Resolved is an independent reference on the American campaign for women's suffrage, 1848 to 1920. It is a new project, it has no connection to any previous owner of this domain, and it sells nothing.

A shopfront office with suffrage posters in the windows.
Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association headquarters.

What this site is

A reference on one subject: how the vote was demanded, argued for and finally written into the Constitution of the United States, and what the people who ran that campaign actually said. Every page answers its question in the first sentence and then goes to a document, a date or a named person.

What it is not

It does not campaign. It takes no position on any present day political question and carries no petition, no donation and no advocacy of any kind. It is a reference about a closed historical episode.

It carries no medical, relationship, parenting or financial content. An earlier site at this address did carry a great deal of that, including an alphabetical index of women's health topics. None of it has been inherited and none of it has been replaced.

If an old link brought you here

Then the address you followed belonged to the earlier site, and what was on it is not published here. This page is what those addresses answer with, deliberately: an explanation rather than a substitute. There is no medical, parenting, relationship or financial article waiting behind any of them, and there will not be one.

Links that pointed at the historic speeches are a different case, and those still work. That archive is the one part of the old site this project continues, so a link to Florence Kelley on child labor, or to Mary Church Terrell in the capital of the United States, lands on the speech itself rather than on this notice.

It says nothing about the Susan B. Anthony dollar. That is a coin collecting subject with a large audience of its own and this site serves none of it.

How it handles an uncertain record

Some of these documents are not stable texts. The best known example is the speech Sojourner Truth gave at Akron in 1851: what was reported at the time and what was published twelve years later differ substantially, including in dialect, and the line everybody quotes comes from the later version. Where that is true the site says so and shows the reader the problem rather than picking the more quotable text.

The site quotes sparingly and only from documents whose wording is certain. Where the exact words are not certain, it describes the argument instead.

About this domain

This domain previously belonged to a general interest website for women that ran in the early 2000s and later lapsed. That site had no connection to this one and this project makes no claim to continue it. What it did have, among a great deal else, was a small archive of historic women's rights speeches, and those pages are the reason this subject was chosen rather than another: where an old link points at a speech, the speech is there.

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