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The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege

Jumping Through Hoops: Performing Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Circus

A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

The Woman Who Knew Everyone: The Power of Perle Mesta, Washington’s Most Famous Hostess

Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance

Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books

They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals

Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster: The Untold Story of the Abolitionist Southern Belle Who Helped Win the Civil War

The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service

Empire of Purity: The History of Americans’ Global War on Prostitution

Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump

Nightshining

Jane Against the World: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights

Speaking of Feminism: Today’s Activists on the Past, Present, and Future of the U.S. Women’s Movement

The Allure of Elsewhere: A Memoir of Going Solo

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power

Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us

America Redux: Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History

Personhood: The New Civil War over Reproduction

Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown

A Protest History of the United States

Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools

American Government 101: From the Continental Congress to the Iowa Caucus, Everything You Need to Know About US Politics

Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman

A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics

Funny Because It’s True: How The Onion Created Modern American News Satire

Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy

The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier

American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Inside the Second Wave of Feminism: Boston Female Liberation, 1968-1972 An Account by Participants

Expect Great Things!: How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for Women

Women Who Woke Up the Law: Inside the Cases That Changed Women’s Rights in Canada

Firstborn Girls: A Memoir

Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning (On Seeing)

Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement

This Small Army of Women: Canadian Volunteer Nurses and the First World War

Seven Social Movements That Changed America

Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism

A Fearless Eye: The Photography of Barbara Ramos: San Francisco and California, 1969–1973

Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families

From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard to Reclaim My Legacy

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People

The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne

One Way Back

I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays

Poet Warrior

The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America

Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America

Voyage of the Sable Venus: And Other Poems

The Jamestown Brides

The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America

We Oughta Know: How Céline, Shania, Alanis, and Sarah Ruled the ’90s and Changed Music

Resist: How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America

Selling Sexy: Victoria’s Secret and the Unraveling of an American Icon

Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

Ten Days in a Mad-House

Black Women of the Civil Rights Movement

Haunted States: An American Gothic Guidebook

Liberating Abortion: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and Building the Reproductive Future We Deserve

The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement

Come By Here: A Memoir in Essays from Georgia’s Geechee Coast

She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street

Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing

She Changed the Nation: Barbara Jordan’s Life and Legacy in Black Politics

Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad

By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England

The Knowing: The Enduring Legacy of Residential Schools

Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult

Witch Hunt: A Traveler’s Guide to the Power and Persecution of the Witch

Lovely One

Salem Witch Trials: A History from Beginning to End

You Get What You Pay For: Essays

Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics

Rehearsals for Living

Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death

Boss Lady: How Three Women Entrepreneurs Built Successful Big Businesses in the Mid-Twentieth Century

Drawn Testimony: Sketching a generation’s most iconic criminal cases

The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine

Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage

Slippery Beast: A True Crime Natural History, with Eels

The Case of Lizzie Borden and Other Writings: Tales of a Newspaper Woman

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973

A Devil Went Down to Georgia: Race, Power, Privilege, and the Murder of Lita McClinton

Whiskey Tender

The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever

A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune

Duchess of Palms: A Memoir

Winifred Sanford: The Life and Times of a Texas Writer

Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch

Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York

The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture

In True Face: A Woman’s Life in the CIA, Unmasked

Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner

The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions

The Devil’s Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail

True Gretch: What I’ve Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between

Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

The MAGA Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (and How I Got Out)

Survivors: A History of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines

Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years

The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History

California a Slave State

The Women’s Revolution: How We Changed Your Life

The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

Candida Royalle & the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below

Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America’s First Poet

When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion

Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan

The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls

Remember My Story: A Girl, a Holocaust Survivor, and a Friendship That Made History

The Tigerbelles: Olympic Legends from Tennessee State

How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America

The Jerrie Mock Story: The First Woman to Fly Solo around the World

Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings

My Selma: True Stories of a Southern Childhood at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement

Behind the Door: The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel

Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America

In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays

Flora!: A Woman in a Man’s World

Women’s Liberation!: Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution & Still Can

Black TV: Five Decades of Groundbreaking Television from Soul Train to Black-ish and Beyond

In the Pines: A Lynching, a Lie, a Reckoning

A Woman I Know: Female Spies, Double Identities, and a New Story of the Kennedy Assassination

Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades

Enough

Deep Care: The Radical Activists Who Provided Abortions, Defied the Law, and Fought to Keep Clinics Open

Dolls of Our Lives: Why We Can’t Quit American Girl

The Wordy Shipmates

The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture

Ordinary Equality: The Fearless Women and Queer People Who Shaped the U.S. Constitution and the Equal Rights Amendment

Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It

To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul

The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts

Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation

Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture

We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment

Policing Pregnant Bodies: From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America

Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science

But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the ’60s Girl Groups

The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live

Stuff Mom Never Told You: The Feminist Past, Present, and Future

Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution

Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination

The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age

Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast

Pretty In Ink: North American Women Cartoonists 1896-2013

The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America

The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly: Portraits and Sketches, 1942-2011

The Decade of Women: A Ms. History of the ’70’s in Words and Pictures

The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own

Ghosts of the Orphanage

The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America

Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution

Unbound Voices: A Documentary History of Chinese Women in San Francisco

Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Civil War Letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland, and Addie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868, Historical African-American Memoirs

The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever

Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks—a Cool History of a Hot Commodity

Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom

Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims

Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians

Beyond the Shores: A History of African Americans Abroad

Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America

Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

Where We Ate: A Field Guide to Canada’s Restaurants, Past and Present

Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote

Roe: The History of a National Obsession

I Can’t Wait to Call You My Wife

Truth Telling: Seven Conversations About Indigenous Life in Canada

The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal

Revolutionizing Women’s Healthcare: The Feminist Self-Help Movement in America

Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy

Seduced by the Light: The Mina Miller Edison Story

Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many

An Architecture of Education: African American Women Design the New South

The First Lady of World War II

Dreamland: America’s Immigration Lottery in an Age of Restriction

Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists

New York in the Thirties

The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age

Fashioning Politics and Protests: New Visual Cultures of Feminism in the United States

Roads of Her Own: Gendered Space and Mobility in American Women’s Road Narratives, 1970-2000

Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism

The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City

Under the Skin: Tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies in Early America