Site index

Every page on this site, in seven groups.

The documents come first because they are the reason the site exists. Everything else is context for them: who was speaking, what the campaign around them was doing, and what the words meant at the time.

Where to start, depending on why you came

If you arrived on a definition, start with the words. Most people meet this subject through a single term, usually suffragette, and the term is the first thing this subject gets wrong: it is British, the American campaigners were suffragists, and applying it backward to Susan B. Anthony or to the convention of 1848 puts a British word on an American question.

If you arrived on the amendment, start there and then read what came after it. The Nineteenth Amendment is one sentence and it does something narrower than it is usually described as doing: it forbids denying the vote on account of sex, and it left every other bar standing. That distinction is the difference between the story most people have been told and what actually happened to Black women in the South for another forty five years.

If you arrived on a person, the profiles are not tributes. Each says what the person did, and each ends on something they got wrong or something commonly misattributed to them, because a reference that only records the creditable half of a political career is not a reference.

What is deliberately not here

This site covers the American campaign only. The British movement appears where it explains an American fact, chiefly the word suffragette and the tactics Alice Paul brought home, and nowhere else. Seneca Falls here is a convention in 1848 and never a town to visit. The Susan B. Anthony dollar is a coin collecting subject with a large audience of its own and is not served on any page.

The domain previously carried a general interest site for women with a large amount of medical, relationship, parenting and financial material. None of that has been inherited and none of it has been replaced. An old link to one of those pages answers with the about page, which explains what happened to the address.

How the pages relate to each other

The groups are not chapters and are not meant to be read in order. The documents go deepest, and everything else bridges back to them: a profile links to the speech it quotes, the campaign pages link to the amendment they produced, and the amendment pages link back to the resolution of 1848 that first demanded it. A reader who lands on any single page from a search should find the route to the document underneath it within the first few paragraphs.