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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

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