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This Is My America

American Resistance: From the Women’s March to the Blue Wave

Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women

The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt

Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South

Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone

Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir

The Men in My Life: A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950s Manhattan

Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls

If They Come for Us

American Women’s Suffrage: Voices from the Long Struggle for the Vote 1776-1965

Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America’s First Celebrity

We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide

Cold Cases: A True Crime Collection: Unidentified Serial Killers, Unsolved Kidnappings, and Mysterious Murders

Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists

Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery

The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide

The Colorblind Screen: Television in Post-Racial America

Say It Louder!: Black Voters, Voices & the Shaping of American Democracy

The Heart and Other Monsters

Queens of the Resistance: Maxine Waters

Queen of Vaudeville: The Story of Eva Tanguay

Jubilee

Frontier Women and Their Art: A Chronological Encyclopedia

Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration

Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy

Queens of the Resistance: Nancy Pelosi

Raising Our Hands: How White Women Can Stop Avoiding Hard Conversations, Start Accepting Responsibility, and Find Our Place on the New Frontlines

The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President’s Black Family

Daughter of the Boycott: Carrying On a Montgomery Family’s Civil Rights Legacy

Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl’s Love Letter to the Power of Fashion

The AOC Way: The Secrets of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Success

Behold the Dreamers

Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture

Ethical Complications of Lynching: Ida B. Wells’s Interrogation of American Terror

Your Next Level Life: 7 Rules of Power, Confidence, and Opportunity for Black Women in America

Women Who Hike: Walking with America’s Most Inspiring Adventurers

Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation

Arm the Spirit: A Story from Underground and Back

Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems

Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why

Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life

The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having—or Being Denied—an Abortion

Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness

Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation

Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture

Civil Racism: The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion and the Crisis of Racial Burnout

Say I’m Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love

Overground Railroad: The Green Book & Roots of Black Travel in America

This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration

The Wind Done Gone

Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory

AOC: Fighter, Phenom, Changemaker

Thank You for Voting: The Maddening, Enlightening, Inspiring Truth About Voting in America

Feminist Parenting: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond

The Street

Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights

If They Come in the Morning … Voices of Resistance

Raising Multiracial Children: Tools for Nurturing Identity in a Racialized World

Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.

Our Time is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America

Ann Petry: The Street, The Narrows

Neon Girls: A Stripper’s Education in Protest and Power

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960

No, You Shut Up: Speaking Truth to Power and Reclaiming America

Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege

America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court

Femmenism and the Mexican Woman Intellectual from Sor Juana to Poniatowska: Boob Lit

“Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”: A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity

Love in Infant Monkeys

Love Behind Bars: The True Story of an American Prisoner’s Wife

Pickles and Preserves: A Savor the South Cookbook

McCullers – Stories, Plays, & Other Writings: Complete Stories / The Member of the Wedding: A Play / The Sojourner / The Square Root of Wonderful / Essays, Poems & Autobiography

How the Dead Dream

One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965

Boys of Alabama

The Mothers

Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem

Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement

Behind the Smile: A Story of Carol Moseley Braun’s Historic Senate Campaign

Stray City

Fierce Attachments: A Memoir

Go Set a Watchman

Belly Up: Stories

Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir

South and West: From a Notebook

The Invaders

Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would Be President

The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of a TV Dating Show, a Violent Sociopath, and a Series of Brutal Murders

My Mother’s House

American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures

Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers’ Rights at Wal-Mart

I Live Inside: Memoirs of a Babe in Toyland

Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

This Is All I Got

A Woman’s Wage: Historical Meanings and Social Consequences

Killing the Indian Maiden: Images of Native American Women in Film

Pelosi

Black & White & Noir: America’s Pulp Modernism

The Way We Never Were: American Families & the Nostalgia Trap

The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade

The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling

The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families 1600-1900

The Big Sister’s Guide to the World of Work: The Inside Rules Every Working Girl Must Know

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States

Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82

Last Things

The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs

The Undocumented Americans

Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South

Images of Sex Work in Early Twentieth-Century America: Gender, Sexuality and Race in the Storyville Portraits

Fight No More: Stories

Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology

The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim: A Writer in Early Hollywood

Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Aphrodite’s Daughters: Three Modernist Poets of the Harlem Renaissance

Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era

On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker

Dolly: My Life and Other Unfinished Business

Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy

Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir

Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray

Gilded: How Newport Became America’s Richest Resort

Miss Aluminum: A Memoir

Polly Pry: The Woman Who Wrote the West

Stay and Fight

Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934

It’s up to the Women

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

The Ones We’ve Been Waiting for: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America

Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Hidden in History: The Untold Stories of Women During World War I and World War II

The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women’s Rights and Abolition

Brown White Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion

Girls Burn Brighter

Red Bird, Red Power: The Life and Legacy of Zitkala-Ša

Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York

How Much of These Hills Is Gold

American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland

A Great Big Girl Like Me: The Films of Marie Dressler

A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South

Big Girls Don’t Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women

Anne Hutchinson: A Captivating Guide to the Puritan Leader in Colonial Massachusetts Who Is Considered to Be One of the Earliest American Feminists

Brute: Poems

The Women’s Guide to Overcoming Insomnia: Get a Good Night’s Sleep Without Relying on Medication

Sharing the Work: What My Family and Career Taught Me about Breaking Through (and Holding the Door Open for Others)

Nobody’s Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood

News of the World

Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist

Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby

She Hath Been Reading: Women and Shakespeare Clubs in America

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement

Lakewood

Creature

Hit So Hard: A Memoir

The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War

L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema

Go West, Young Women!: The Rise of Early Hollywood

The Night Watchman

The Firsts: The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress

Women’s Work: An Anthology of African-American Women’s Historical Writings from Antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance

Smithsonian American Women: Women’s History from the National Collection

Marriage Markets: How Inequality is Remaking the American Family

Troublesome Women: Gender, Crime, and Punishment in Antebellum Pennsylvania

Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.

Starring Madame Modjeska: On Tour in Poland and America

Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home–A Memoir

What Are We For?: The Words and Ideals of Eleanor Roosevelt

Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America

The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table

Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000

What Patients Taught Me: A Medical Student’s Journey

Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art

Lightning Rods

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Modern American Revolutionary

A Good Neighborhood

A Woman’s View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960

Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me

True Crimes: A Family Album

More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)

All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir

The Illustrated Feminist: 100 Years of Suffrage, Strength, and Sisterhood in America

Mary Pickford: Queen of the Movies

Edie: American Girl

You Let Some Girl Beat You?: The Story of Ann Meyers Drysdale

In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers