History - Women

THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER & ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2025 A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2025 ALSO NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 BY NPR, VOGUE, TIME MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORKER, AND MORE "This is nonfiction...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, "A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community that is so foreign, and yet so similar to our own" (The New York Times Book Review).Between 1785 and...

A mulher; Os Portuguezes em TangerPouco versado nas lides da litteratura, no posso dedicar-lhe uma obra digna do seu bom nome, mas o desejo que tenho de testemunhar a minha gratido pelos obsequios de que lhe sou devedor, anima-me a proseguir na empresa encetada....

"Delightful and discerning . . . In this evocative study a remarkable woman, creator of the 'first lady' role, comes vividly to life."--The New York Times When the roar of the Revolution had finally died down, a new generation of politicians was summoned to...

"Clever, bold, and refreshingly feminist; readers will be engaged and entertained to the very end." (Booklist) This wildly entertaining new history of Rome uses the lives of 21 women to upend our understanding of the ancient world, from the acclaimed author of A Fatal...

Virginia Woolf's pioneering work of feminism, "probably the most influential piece of non-fictional writing by a woman in [the twentieth] century" (Hermione Lee), featuring a new introduction by Xochitl Gonzalez, Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming and...

Virginia Woolf's classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts is as powerful and resonant as ever. In this influential extended essay, Virginia Woolf outlined what women need in order to fully make use of their abilities. Using...

A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's pioneering work of feminism, "probably the most influential piece of non-fictional writing by a woman in [the twentieth] century" (Hermione Lee), featuring a new introduction by Xochitl Gonzalez, Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author...

In the winter of 1692 something terrible and frightening began in Salem Village. It started with several villagers having strange fits, screaming, and unnaturally contorting themselves, and ended with almost two hundred people in jail, and at least twenty-five dead. Witchcraft accusations--claims that some...

Author: Betty Boyd CaroliPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 02/02/2026Pages: 288Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 8.80h x 6.10w x 1.20dISBN: 9780197793800About the AuthorBetty Boyd Caroli is a graduate of Oberlin College and holds an MA in Mass Communication from Annenberg School of University of Pennsylvania, as well...

A Turkish Woman's European ImpressionsIn the preface of his famous novel, Les Dsenchantes, M. Pierre Loti writes: This novel is pure fiction; those who take the trouble to find real names for Zeyneb, Melek, or Andr will be wasting their energy, for they never...

New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen investigates the sensational story of a minister who seduced four of his female congregants, and hatched a cold-blooded plot to murder his wife. On December 26, 1997, near the affluent community of Bainbridge Island off the coast...

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - With Strictures on Political and Moral SubjectsThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with...

A Vindication of the Rights of WomanThe person or persons who have associated work with this document (the "Dedicator" or "Certifier") hereby either (a) certifies that, to the best of his knowledge, the work of authorship identified is in the public domain of the...

A Woman and the WarIt is not without serious reflection that I have collected these thoughts in war time to offer in book form to those who may care to read and ponder them. They were written for the most part on the spur...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Chosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, the Seattle Times, the Washington Independent Review of Books, PopSugar, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookBrowse, the Spectator, and the Times of London Winner...

A Woman of YesterdayWhere the Monk River makes its way through the mountain wall in one of the northern counties of Vermont, lies the small, white village of Haran. Although isolated and remote from the world, unknown and unconsidered beyond certain narrow limits, this...

"A Woman's Life-Work: Labors and Experiences" by Laura S. Haviland offers a powerful first-person account of one woman's tireless dedication to social reform and the abolitionist movement. Haviland's autobiography details her remarkable life and unwavering commitment to fighting slavery in 19th-century America. This important...

- North American Guild of Beer Writers Best Book 2022 Dismiss the stereotype of the bearded brewer. It's women, not men, who've brewed beer throughout most of human history. Their role as family and village brewer lasted for hundreds of thousands of years--through the...

From the author of Unwell Women comes a powerful and groundbreaking new narrative history of motherhood and mothering. Mothers make history. But what it has meant for mothers to do the physical and emotional work of mothering has, for centuries, been neglected in the...