History - Women

Discover the women who shaped Puerto Rico's history. This anthology brings together twenty investigative essays on historic Puerto Rican women, using their own quotes as a pie forza'o (thematic opening). It is the result of fifteen years of interest in Puerto Rico's most influential...

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IThe prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history. A survey of the condition of the race through those barbarous periods, when physical force governed the world, when the motto, "might makes right," was the law,...

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IIIn presenting to our readers the second volume of the "History of Woman Suffrage," we gladly return our thanks to the press for the many favorable notices we have received from leading journals, both in the old world and...

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IIIThe labors of those who have edited these volumes are not only finished as far as this work extends, but if three-score years and ten be the usual limit of human life, all our earthly endeavors must end in...

Hitler and My Mother-in-Law is a riveting memoir that explores the intersection of truth-both familial and political--through the colorful and complex life of the author's mother-in-law. In a time like our own of intense propaganda and manipulation, the only WWII female correspondent who covered...

This book highlights the role of Jewish women in saving Jewish children's lives during the Holocaust. How many people rescued Jews during the Holocaust? There is no certain answer to this question other than "far too few." Fewer than 0.5% of the 700 million...

"Terrifying, fascinating, and important." --Sara Sheridan, author of Where Are the Women? and The Fair BotanistsNothing brings people together like a common enemy, and witches were the greatest enemy of all.Scotland, 1563: Crops failed. People starved. And the Devil's influence was stronger than ever--at...

From a bold new voice in nonfiction, an exhilarating account of the lives and works of influential 17th and 18th century feminist philosophers Mary Wollstonecraft and her predecessors who have been written out of history, and a searing look at the author's experience of...

The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist and women's liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s. In this collection of essays and interviews edited by activist-scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta...

Drawn from NPR Music's acclaimed, groundbreaking series Turning the Tables, the definitive book on the vital role of Women in Music--from Beyoncé to Odetta, Taylor Swift to Joan Baez, Joan Jett to Dolly Parton--featuring archival interviews, essays, photographs, and illustrations.Turning the Tables, launched in...

The famous Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is the 23rd hero in the New York Times bestselling picture book biography series from Brad Meltzer and Christopher Eliopoulos. This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits that kids can...

Sacagawea, the only Indigenous person included in Lewis and Clark's historic expedition, is the 13th hero in the New York Times bestselling picture book biography series for ages 5 to 8. Sacagawea was the only girl, and the only Native American, to join Lewis...

I Will Not Abandon You brings to life the unrelenting defiance of queer women in fascist Germany. In his latest book, award-winning historian Samuel Clowes Huneke shows how love, queer resistance, and collective action survived in the harrowing circumstances of Nazi rule. Drawing on...

An illuminating exploration of 31 incredible women--across art, architecture, dance, literature, and more--whose culture-defining contributions have, until now, been overshadowed by their role as "muses" to history's better-known men. What does it mean to be someone's "muse"? Historically, to be called a "muse" among...

The inspirational life of Kamala Harris for kids!From the newly-announced Young People's Poet Laureate comes a powerful and inspiring picture book that shares how each milestone and moment in Kamala Harris's life represents something that lies within young readers' reach, too--building community, asking for...

"Never has medical history been more entertaining" (Dr Jennifer Gunter, author of The Vagina Bible) than in this turbulent history of women's bodies from classical Greece to the modern age Breasts, clitoris, hymen, and womb. Across history, these body parts have told women who...

A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year "Grindle's passionate book, including extensive research in Mexico, will ensure that [Zelia Nuttall] is never forgotten." --British Museum Magazine "[A] beautifully crafted biography." --Foreign Affairs "What a woman! And...

Available for the first time in English, an intimate look into the private lives and spiritual experiences of 30 nuns and laywomen practicing under pioneering female Zen master Sozen Nagasawa Roshi in World War II-era Japan. Born in 1888, Sozen Nagasawa Roshi was a...

In Times Like These Who answers all arguments by saying, "Woman's place is the home" and, "The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world," and even sometimes flashes out with the brilliant retort, "It would suit those women better to stay at home...

This engaging, informative picture book shines a light on the women and girls of the American Revolution and the vital roles they played in shaping history. Listen up! You've all heard about the great men who led and fought during the American Revolution; but...