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Our Brave Foremothers: Celebrating 100 Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous Women Who Changed the Course of History

Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming

Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West

The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights

Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America

Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA

Ring of Fire: High-Stakes Mining in a Lowlands Wilderness

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box

The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

Black Women Writers at Work

Ain’t I a Woman?

Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs

We Are Bridges: A Memoir

Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century

Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Electable: Why America Hasn’t Put a Woman in the White House . . . Yet

Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920-2020

Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution

All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind

Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century

The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

The Pinks: The First Women Detectives, Operatives, and Spies with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency

Demanding Equality: One Hundred Years of Canadian Feminism

Rough Draft: A Memoir

Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be

The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

On Juneteenth

Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

Maya Angelou: The Iconic Self

Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

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

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

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

American Witches: A Broomstick Tour Through Four Centuries

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

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

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

Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits

American Women’s Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age

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

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

A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in America

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

Shirley Chisholm: Catalyst for Change

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

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

American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street

No Justice in the Shadows: How America Criminalizes Immigrants

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

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

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

Rosa Parks: My Story

Standoff: Race, Policing, and a Deadly Assault That Gripped a Nation

Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism

Daughters of Mother Earth: The Wisdom of Native American Women

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

If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

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

A Disability History of the United States

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

Super Serious

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

On Corruption in America: And What Is at Stake

African American Women of the Old West

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

Culver City Chronicles

Max Factor and Hollywood: A Glamorous History

Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture

A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland

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

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

They Didn’t See Us Coming: The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties

Frontier Women and Their Art: A Chronological Encyclopedia

The Marrow Thieves

Harriet Tubman and the Fight for Freedom: A Brief History with Documents

Calamity: The Many Lives of Calamity Jane

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

Daughters of the Earth: The Lives and Legends of American Indian Women

Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South

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

The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle

Raised in Ruins: A Memoir

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

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

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

Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment

Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

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

Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege

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

Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court

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

Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem

The Three-Year Swim Club: The Untold Story of Maui’s Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory

Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir

Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would Be President

A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story

Women on the Move: The Forgotten Era of Women’s Bicycle Racing

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

Wiping the War Paint off the Lens: Native American Film and Video

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

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

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

The History of White People

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States

The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America

Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82

Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture After the Nickelodeon

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

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

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

Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray

Gilded: How Newport Became America’s Richest Resort

The Belle of Bedford Avenue: The Sensational Brooks-Burns Murder in Turn-of-the-Century New York

Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity

Kick Kennedy: The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter

Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol)

Polly Pry: The Woman Who Wrote the West

It’s up to the Women

“All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans

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

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

The Women’s Suffrage Movement

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

100 Canadian Heroines: Famous and Forgotten Faces

Telling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower

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

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

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

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

Inside Broadside: A Decade of Feminist Journalism

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

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

The Firsts: The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress

How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement

This Is HerStory: A Celebration of Remarkable Women Who Changed the World

Women in the American Revolution: Gender, Politics, and the Domestic World

Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

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

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

How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump

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

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

These Truths: A History of the United States

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

The Trial of Lizzie Borden

The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History

Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol

She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman

Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women’s Movements

You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington

All Our Relations

Motherlove in Shades of Black: The Maternal Psyche in the Novels of African American Women

Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America

The Life of Bessie Coleman: First African American Woman Pilot

Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism

Fighter in Velvet Gloves: Alaska Civil Rights Hero Elizabeth Peratrovich

A Feeling of Belonging: Asian American Women’s Public Culture, 1930-1960

The Social Meaning of Money: Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor Relief, and Other Currencies

Earning Power: Women and Work in Los Angeles, 1880-1930

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

St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America’s Hippest Street

The Flame Throwers

The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey to Reconciliation

The Season: A Social History of the Debutante

The Heartland: An American History

The National Team: The Inside Story of the Women who Changed Soccer

The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It

The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth

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

Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

The Way We All Became The Brady Bunch: How the Canceled Sitcom Became the Beloved Pop Culture Icon We Are Still Talking About Today

A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870

The Partly Cloudy Patriot

African American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students

America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States

Pioneering Women: Short Stories by Canadian Women, Beginnings to 1880

Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn Into the Twentieth Century

Women on Their Own: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Being Single

Herlands: Exploring the Women’s Land Movement in the United States

When Rape Was Legal: The Untold History of Sexual Violence During Slavery