36 Books in the History / Women Category

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We Refuse (paperback): A Forceful History of Black Resistance

We Refuse (paperback): A Forceful History of Black Resistance
Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights

Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights
The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic

The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic
Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us

Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century

Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century
Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century

Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle

Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle
Shine Bright: A Personal History of Black Women in Pop

Shine Bright: A Personal History of Black Women in Pop
See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure in the Interwar Era

See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure in the Interwar Era
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
The Nation Must Awake: Our Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921

The Nation Must Awake: Our Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
All These Things the Old Tales Tell - The Best of Alice Dunbar Nelson

All These Things the Old Tales Tell - The Best of Alice Dunbar Nelson
A Black Women’s History of the United States

A Black Women’s History of the United States
Black Beauties: African American Pageant Queens in the Segregated South

Black Beauties: African American Pageant Queens in the Segregated South
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman

She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman
Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women’s Fight for Their Rights

Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women’s Fight for Their Rights
Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement

Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom

Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era

Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era
Hidden Figures Illustrated The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

Hidden Figures Illustrated The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box

Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box
Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women

Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women
Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.

Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland

The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland
Hidden Figures

Hidden Figures
Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women

Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Bird

Bird
Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson

Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson