Women Warriors: An Unexpected History...
Pamela D. TolerWho says women don’t go to war? From Vikings and African queens to cross-dressing military doctors and WWII Russian fighter pilots, these are the stories of women for whom battle was not a metaphor. The woman warrior is alway...
First Women: The Grace and Power of A...
Kate Andersen BrowerFrom the number one New York Times bestselling author of The Residence, the groundbreaking work of journalism about the White House staff, comes an intimate, news-making look at the true modern power brokers of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenu...
Brush up on your knowledge of prominent women through the ages, from across the globe, and in all walks of life.Who Knew? Women in History is a compendium of more than a hundred articles about women who have played a prominent role i...
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of A...
Kate Moore1917. As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous-the girls themselve...
The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Sto...
Hillary Rodham ClintonHillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them—women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done.She couldn’t have been mo...
Anne Boleyn: 500 Years of Lies
Hayley NolanA bold new analysis of one of history’s most misrepresented women.History has lied.Anne Boleyn has been sold to us as a dark figure, a scheming seductress who bewitched Henry VIII into divorcing his queen and his church in an unprec...
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of A...
Kate MooreA New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller!"the glowing ghosts of the radium girls haunt us still."―NPR Books The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark dangerThe Curies' newly ...