“I hope… to encourage historians to view different dimensions of women's work and thought in context. Only then will we understand the scope of women's contributions to history as distinct from their appreciation of the limitations of the society in which they operated. Each stage of the development of "herstoryography" merits our full attention, with careful thought to the way in which all dimensions exist and relate one to the other, and with caution for the possible ways we may inadvertently create our own barriers to that which we most wish to discover…" –Janis L. MacDonald

US Women's History

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Histories

An Indigenous People's History of the United States

Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz tells a survey of the United States.


A Black Women's History of the United States

Berry and Gross tell a survey of the United States.
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​America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines​

Gail Collins tells a survey of the United States.

Female Husbands

Jan Manion tells the history of women in male clothing who married other women between the Colonial Era and WWI.

Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas

Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality at the center of slavery studies.

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

​Evette Dionne shows that the fight for the right to vote was only one battle for African American women.

​The Women's Suffrage Movement​

An intersectional anthology of works by the known and unknown women that shaped and established the suffrage movement



We Demand The Right To Vote: The Journey to the 19th Amendment
American Women Were Denied The Right To Vote for 144 Years. This is a comprehensive overview of the movement.
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​Dakota Women's Work

A tiny pair of beaded deerskin moccasins, given to a baby in 1913, provides the starting point for this thoughtful examination of the work of Dakota women.

Women of the Northern Plains: Gender and Settlement on the Homestead Frontier​

The stories of the unsung heroes of North Dakota's settlement era: the farm women.

​Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery​

The stark realities of prostitution in the American West with sensitivity and insight.

​​Soiled Doves: Prostitution in the Early West (Women of the West)​​
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Soiled Doves tells the story of the grey world of prostitution and the women who participated in the oldest profession.​

Race and the Wild West: Sarah Bickford, the Montana Vigilantes, and the Tourism of Decline

​​Born a slave in eastern Tennessee, Sarah Blair Bickford (1852–1931) made her way while still a teenager to Montana Territory.

​The Feminist Revolution

​Story from the Three Most Inspiring and Empowering Women in American History: Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Sanger, and Betty Friedan.

Gender, Class, Race, and Reform in the Progressive Era

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Code Girls

Tells the story of women who broke codes for the Allied effort in WWII. 



Bitter Fruit: African American Women in World War II

Maureen Honey corrections of the distorted picture of women's roles in WWII.

​D-Day Girls​

The dramatic, untold history of the heroic women recruited by Britain’s elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory in WWII.


The Moral Basis of Democracy

A wartime manifesto on the moral obligations of democratic citizens from the most influential first lady in American history.​

What Are We For?: The Words and Ideals of Eleanor Roosevelt

A collection of her most treasured sayings—the perfect gift for Mother’s Day, graduation, and a new generation of feminists.

At The Dark End Of The Street

A story that reinterprets the history of America's civil rights movement in terms of the sexual violence committed against Black women by white men. 
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From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969

Alicia Gutierrez-Romine examines the history of criminal abortion in California.
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Unbought & Unbossed

Shirley Chisholm's account of her remarkable rise from young girl in Brooklyn to America's first African-American Congresswoman.
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​Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions

Third edition of the renowned feminist’s most diverse and timeless collection of essays, with a new foreword by Emma Watson.​

Phyllis Schlafly Speaks, Volume 1: Her Favorite Speeches​

Phyllis Schlafly is a conservative icon and is considered by many to be the founder of the modern conservative movement. 

Historical Fiction

The Invention of Wings

Sue Monk Kidd tells the story of Sarah Grimke and her enslaved friend, Hetty as they both fight for freedom.

The Invisible Woman

Erika Robuck tells the story of Virginia Hall, an American spy during WWII station in occupied France in the build up to D-Day.


The Nightengale

Kristin Hannah tells the story of two sisters involved in the French Resistance, helping pilots escape into Spain.

Lilac Girls

Martha Hall Kelly tells the story of three women; an American activist, a Polish resister, and a German doctor, who's true stories collide in Europe during WWII.

World Women's History

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Histories

Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women's History of the World

Rosalind Miles tells the history of civilization. 

The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome

A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own.​

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Mary Beard tells the story of Rome's founding and early periods from a people's perspective, including women.

The Creation of Patriarchy​

Gerda Lerner tells the story of early Western Civilization.

Historical Fiction

The Book of Longings: A Novel

​Sue Monk Kidd tells the story of Anna, an imagined woman who become's Jesus' wife.

The Invisible Woman

Erika Robuck tells the story of Virginia Hall, an American spy during WWII station in occupied France in the build up to D-Day.


The Nightengale

Kristin Hannah tells the story of two sisters involved in the French Resistance, helping pilots escape into Spain.

Lilac Girls

Martha Hall Kelly tells the story of three women; an American activist, a Polish resister, and a German doctor, who's true stories collide in Europe during WWII.