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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

Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin

Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston

In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop

The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe

Fastpitch: The Untold History of Softball and the Women Who Made the Game

Restless Ambition: Grace Hartigan, Painter

Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race

Brooklyn’s Promised Land: The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York

Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea: Indian Women as Cultural Intermediaries and National Symbols

No Stopping Us Now: A History of Older Women in America

Woman Suffrage and the Origins of Liberal Feminism in the United States, 1820-1920

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars

This America: The Case for the Nation

Sisters in Spirit: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influences on Early American Feminists

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials

The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace

See Jane Win: The Inspiring Story of the Women Changing American Politics

The Boundaries of Her Body: A Shocking History of Women’s Rights in America

Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform

Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism

American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation

Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

Migra!: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol

The Yellow House

Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul

Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870-1967

This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America’s Middle Class

Crazy Brave: A Memoir

The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement

The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote

Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World

Negroland: A Memoir

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life

Shrewed: A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls

Press, Platform, Pulpit: Black Feminist Publics in the Era of Reform