Projected Publications:
Volume 5: 1887 to 1895
The defeat of the sixteenth amendment in 1887 revived interest in state-based campaigns for the vote, and that in turn smoothed the way for merging the American and National association in 1890. Though Stanton rarely engaged in such campaigns at this late date, Anthony traveled to them all. By creating the International and National Councils of Women in 1888, Stanton and Anthony kept political rights on the agenda of women's increasing activism. But the two women responded differently to the diversity of people now attracted to their cause. Anthony emerged as the compromising politician creating a mass base, while Stanton assumed a critical attitude toward women's political values, especially about the separation of church and state.
Volume 6: 1896 to 1906
Neither Stanton nor Anthony ever retired, and in their final years they tried in their respective ways to continue to lead the suffrage movement. More important, their papers continue to record developments within that movement and thus capture the issues and leadership central to its twentieth-century story.