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Patti Smith on Patti Smith: Interviews and Encounters (Musicians in Their Own Words)

We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

We Gather Together: A Nation Divided, a President in Turmoil, and a Historic Campaign to Embrace Gratitude and Grace

An American Sunrise

White Fright: The Sexual Panic at the Heart of America’s Racist History

The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II

The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread

Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest

On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist

The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls

American Witches: A Broomstick Tour Through Four Centuries

Talking about Structural Inequalities in Everyday Life: New Politics of Race in Groups, Organizations, and Social Systems

South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

The Book of Skulls

Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

Faces of the Feminine in Ancient, Medieval, & Modern India

London’s Women Artists, 1900-1914: A Talented and Decorative Group

Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life

Isis: Eternal Goddess of Egypt and Rome

Bad Girls and Transgressive Women in Popular Television, Fiction, and Film

The Woman’s Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects

Gender, Media and Voice: Communicative Injustice and Public Speech

Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party

Alone atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press

Women of Courage

The Black Arts Movement and the Black Panther Party in American Visual Culture

Modern Records, Maverick Methods: Technology and Process in Popular Music Record Production 1978-2000

Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance

Picture World: Image, Aesthetics, and Victorian New Media

Soviet Women and Their Art: The Spirit of Equality

Long Live the Queens: Mighty, Magnificent and Bloody Marvellous Monarchs History’s Forgotten

Why Comics?: From Underground to Everywhere

Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits

Closely Watched Films: An Introduction to the Art of Narrative Film Technique

Cinema by Design: Art Nouveau, Modernism, and Film History

The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily

There Was a Woman: La Llorona from Folklore to Popular Culture

A History of Magic, Witchcraft, and the Occult

American Women’s Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

Hollywood Heroines: Women in Film Noir and the Female Gothic Film

Dissenter on the Bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Life and Work

Picturing Resistance: Moments and Movements of Social Change from the 1950s to Today

Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America

Traditions of Death and Burial

The Monstrous-Feminine in Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture

The Book of Extraordinary Deaths: True Accounts of Ill-Fated Lives

Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor

Restless Spirits: Ghost Stories by American Women, 1872-1926

Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

Women as Mythmakers: Poetry and Visual Art by Twentieth-Century Women

Evil Archaeology: Demons, Possessions, and Sinister Relics

Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women Are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex

Women in Antiquity: Real Women across the Ancient World

Demonic Grounds: Black Women And The Cartographies Of Struggle

Dangerous Ambition: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson: New Women in Search of Love and Power

A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in America

When God Was a Woman

The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart

The Verso Book of Feminism: Revolutionary Words from Four Millennia of Rebellion

Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought

She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs

Just Kids from the Bronx: Telling It the Way It Was: An Oral History

Pretty Iconic: A Personal Look at the Beauty Products that Changed the World

Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

Lucie Aubrac: The French Resistance Heroine Who Outwitted the Gestapo

Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965

Shirley Chisholm: Catalyst for Change

Enraged: Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths

The Rise of Public Woman: Woman’s Power and Woman’s Place in the United States, 1630-1970

The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War

Red Lipstick: An Ode to a Beauty Icon

Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis

War: How Conflict Shaped Us

The Books That Changed My Life: Reflections by 100 Authors, Actors, Musicians, and Other Remarkable People

Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America

Bauhaus Weaving Theory: From Feminine Craft to Mode of Design

Underground in Berlin: A Young Woman’s Extraordinary Tale of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany

The Moment of Racial Sight: A History

The Mother of All Jobs: How to Have Children and a Career and Stay Sane(ish)

The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined

American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street

The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story

The Devil Comes to Dartmoor: The Haunting True Story of Mary Howard, Devon’s ‘Demon Bride’

The Ancient Guide to Modern Life

No Justice in the Shadows: How America Criminalizes Immigrants

New Woman Fiction: Women Writing First-Wave Feminism

That’s the Way It Was: Stories of Struggle, Survival and Self-Respect in Twentieth-Century Black St. Louis

Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times

Ar’n’t I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South

The Middle Ages in 50 Objects

Women of Will: The Remarkable Evolution of Shakespeare’s Female Characters

New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

Mental Floss Presents Be Amazing

The Tale of Beatrix Potter: A Biography

Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science’s First Family

Horrible Words: A Guide to the Misuse of English

Sex with Presidents: The Ins and Outs of Love and Lust in the White House

Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis

Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit

Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

Rosa Parks: My Story

Just Us: An American Conversation

It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music

Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America

Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

Women, Culture, and Politics

Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989

Gentleman Jack: A Biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist

Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains

Somebody to Love?: A Rock-and-Roll Memoir

Book of Awesome Women Writers

The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women’s Literature in America, 1820-1860

All God’s Children

Shadow Bodies: Black Women, Ideology, Representation, and Politics

Our Ice Is Vanishing / Sikuvut Nunguliqtuq: A History of Inuit, Newcomers, and Climate Change

Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley

Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism

Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land

Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism

Daughters of Mother Earth: The Wisdom of Native American Women

To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America – A History

My Own Words

If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America

50 Films That Changed Bollywood, 1995-2015

Alone Together: Love, Grief, and Comfort in the Time of COVID-19

She’s A Rebel: The History of Women in Rock & Roll

Words of Her Own: Women Authors in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes

Artcurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History

A Bad Woman Feeling Good: Blues and the Women Who Sing Them

Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine

Chinese Women’s Cinema: Transnational Contexts

The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)

Nevertheless, She Wore It: 50 Iconic Fashion Moments

Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition

The Portable Hannah Arendt

The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries

The Hidden History of American Fashion: Rediscovering 20th-Century Women Designers

The Wicked Sisters: Women Poets, Literary History, and Discord

A Disability History of the United States

The Women Who Made New York

Mend!: A Refashioning Manual and Manifesto

Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth: The Dark History of Prepubescent Pop, from the Banana Splits to Britney Spears

Men in Dark Times

On Violence

Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era

Men to Avoid in Art and Life

Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir

Super Serious

33 1/3: Nick Drake’s Pink Moon

The Darkest Web: Drugs, Death and Destroyed Lives… The Inside Story of the Internet’s Evil Twin

The Choice: Embrace the Possible

Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe

Royal Witches: From Joan of Navarre to Elizabeth Woodville

The Human Cosmos: A Secret History of the Stars

Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady

The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine

Daring: My Passages: A Memoir

Tomboy: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different

She Votes: How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

On Corruption in America: And What Is at Stake

Chasing Chopin: A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions

Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Murder of Reena Virk

Compañeras: Zapatista Women’s Stories

African American Women of the Old West

Surrealist Women: An International Anthology

Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots

Azadi

Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism

Identity and Capitalism

Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency

After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America

Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town

Inequality: A Short History

Greek Myths: Meet the Heroes and Heroines, Monsters and Gods of Ancient Greece

Medieval Writings on Female Spirituality

Modern Scottish Women Poets

In Bed with the Ancient Egyptians

Culver City Chronicles

Looking for Miss America: A Pageant’s 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood

A Cargo of Women: Susannah Watson and the Convicts of the Princess Royal

The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir

Hidden Heroines: The Forgotten Suffragettes

My Name is Victoria: The Extraordinary Story of One Woman’s Struggle to Reclaim Her True Identity

Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States

Treasury of Greek Mythology

33 1/3: Bobbie Gentry’s Ode to Billie Joe

The Little Princesses: The Story of the Queen’s Childhood by Her Nanny, Marion Crawford

Max Factor and Hollywood: A Glamorous History

AOC: The Fearless Rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and What It Means for America

Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture

The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches 1968-1992

Anger: The Conflicted History of an Emotion