Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box
10 best books like Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box (Angela P. Dodson): Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World, Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant, Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women's Right to Vote, The Destruction of Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren: Her Fight. Her Work. Her Life., The Girl I Left Behind: A Narrative History of the Sixties, The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test/The Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby/Radical Chic & Mau Mauing the Flak Catchers, A Young People's History of the United States, Volume 2: Class Struggle to the War On Terror, Sybil Ludington: Revolutionary War Rider, Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America
| Author | Andrea Barnet |
| ISBN | 0062310747 |
A Finalist for the PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography
Four influential women we thought we knew well—Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters—and how they spearheaded the modern progressive movement
This is the story of four visionaries who profoundly...
Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant
| Author | Carol Berkin |
| ISBN | 1400044464 |
Here are the life stories of three women who connect us to our national past and provide windows onto a social and political landscape that is strangely familiar yet shockingly foreign.
Berkin focuses on three “accidental heroes” who left behind sufficient records to allow their voices...
Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women's Right to Vote
| Author | Johanna Neuman |
| ISBN | 1479837067 |
New York City's elite women who turned a feminist cause into a fashionable revolution In the early twentieth century over two hundred of New York's most glamorous socialites joined the suffrage movement. Their names--Astor, Belmont, Rockefeller, Tiffany, Vanderbilt, Whitney and the like--carried...
The Destruction of Hillary Clinton
| Author | Susan Bordo |
| ISBN | 1612196632 |
A play-by-play of the political forces (both right and left) and media culture that vilified Hillary Clinton during her 2016 Presidential campaign, from cultural critic and feminist scholar Susan Bordo.
The Destruction of Hillary Clinton is an answer to the question we’ve all been asking:...
Elizabeth Warren: Her Fight. Her Work. Her Life.
| Author | Antonia Felix |
| ISBN | 1492665282 |
"Nevertheless, she persisted." These three words became an inspiring battle cry across the United States in 2017, but the woman to whom they refer has been fighting passionately all her life. Raised in a tough working-class home in Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren went on to become a revered scholar, law...
At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building their respective careers in Washington—Nies as the speechwriter and chief staffer to a core group of antiwar congressmen, her husband as a Treasury department...
| Author | Tom Wolfe |
| ISBN | 0965079929 |
The Unspoken Thing; Kesey's role and the whole direction the Pranksters were taking-all the pranksters were conscious of it, but none of them put it into words, as I say. They made a point of not putting it into words. that in itself was one of the unspoken rules. If you label it this, then it can't be that....Kesey...
| Author | Howard Zinn |
| ISBN | 1583227601 |
A Young People's History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people. A Young People's History of the United States is also a companion volume...
| Author | E.F. Abbott |
| ISBN | 1250068363 |
What would you do if your country was counting on you to deliver a message? That's sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington’s urgent mission.
In 1777, Sybil and her family believe the American colonies should be free from British control. Sybil’s father leads a regiment of New York militiamen,...
| Author | Ellen Chesler |
| ISBN | 1416540768 |
Ellen Chesler's 1992 biography of Margaret Sanger is acclaimed as definitive and is widely used and cited by scholars and activists alike in the fields of women's health and reproductive rights.
Chesler's substantive new Afterword considers how Sanger's life and work hold up in light of...
The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf
| Author | William C. Davis |
| ISBN | 0156032597 |
At large during the most colorful period in New Orleans' history, from just after the Louisiana Purchase through the War of 1812, privateers Jean and Pierre Laffite made life hell for Spanish merchants on the Gulf. Pirates to the U.S. Navy officers who chased them, heroes to the private citizens who...
Unrestrained by convention, lion-hearted and free, Eleanor Marx (1855-98) was an exceptional woman. Hers was the first English translation of Flaubert's Mme Bovary. She pioneered the theatre of Henrik Ibsen. She was the first woman to lead the British dock workers' and gas workers' trades unions....
Nellie Taft: The Unconventional First Lady of the Ragtime Era
| Author | Carl Sferrazza Anthony |
| ISBN | 0060513837 |
On the morning of William Howard Taft's inauguration, Nellie Taft publicly expressed that theirs would be a joint presidency by shattering precedent and demanding that she ride alongside her husband down Pennsylvania Avenue, a tradition previously held for the outgoing president. In an era before...
Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America (Free Press)
| Author | Sara M. Evans |
| ISBN | 0684834987 |
In opening the section on Women and Modernity, 1890-1920, Evans sets the scene for the response to industrialization by relating the speech given by the black reformer Frances Harper at the 1893 World's Fair at Chicago. Speaking to the role that women could play in the future of America, she was all to...
Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History
| Author | Blair Imani |
| ISBN | 0399582231 |
An inspiring and radical celebration of 70 women, girls, and gender nonbinary people who have changed--and are still changing--the world, from the Civil Rights Movement and Stonewall riots through Black Lives Matter and beyond.
With a radical and inclusive approach to history, Modern...
The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women's Quest for the American Presidency
In The Highest Glass Ceiling, best-selling historian Ellen Fitzpatrick tells the story of three remarkable women who set their sights on the American presidency. Victoria Woodhull (1872), Margaret Chase Smith (1964), and Shirley Chisholm (1972) each challenged persistent barriers confronted...
The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It
You’ve met the extra woman: she’s sophisticated, she lives comfortably alone, she pursues her passions unabashedly, and—contrary to society’s suspicions—she really is happy. Despite multiple waves of feminist revolution, today’s single woman is still mired in judgment or, worse,...
Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves
| Author | Henry Wiencek |
| ISBN | 0374299560 |
Is there anything new to say about Thomas Jefferson and slavery? The answer is a resounding yes. Master of the Mountain, Henry Wiencek’s eloquent, persuasive book—based on new information coming from archaeological work at Monticello and on hitherto overlooked or disregarded evidence in Jefferson’s...
Coco and the Little Black Dress
| Author | Annemarie van Haeringen |
| ISBN | 0735842396 |
"Hurry up! You may only go to bed when all the sheets are ironed." Little Coco grew up in the orphanage and had to work hard for a living sewing and embroidering like an angel. Until her eighteenth birthday . . . Coco knew one thing for sure Coco. She would never, never be poor again. A beautifully illustrated...
Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson
| Author | Gore Vidal |
| ISBN | 0300105924 |
Gore Vidal’s uniquely irreverent take on America’s founding fathers will enliven all future discussion of the enduring power of their nation-building ideas
Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American literature and one of the most acute observers of American life and history,...
Alexander the Great and His Time (Dorset Oress Reprints Series)
| Author | Agnes Savill |
| ISBN | 0880295910 |
I read Savill first as a boy (say about ten-ish) and fell in love with Alexander of Macedon as a hero and role model. Revisiting this now horribly dated tome (Savill, though writing in the post-war period was an Edwardian in every thing which matters) I am still entranced by Savill's scholarship and energy,...
Journey to Pennsylvania backcountry during the French and Indian War. Indentured servant Lily Harwood has always thought of herself as a good Christian lass. . .until she is struck with a deeper, more profound plight than the war that rages around her. When her mistress’s husband returns home...
Simone Weil: A Penguin Life
| Author | Francine du Plessix Gray |
| ISBN | 0670899984 |
Francine du Plessix Gray's biography of the Marquis de Sade, At Home with the Marquis de Sade, was hailed by The New York Times Book Review as a "boldly imaginative retelling" of his life and garnered the critically acclaimed author a Pulitzer Prize nomination. In Simone Weil, du Plessix Gray vividly...
The Devil Has No Mother: Why He's Worse Than You Think- But God is Greater
| Author | Nicky Cruz |
| ISBN | 1617951897 |
I don't think I've ever reviewed Run Baby Run, but that's because I read it way before I started this blog. I was about twelve, and this, along with the "companion book" The Cross and the Switchblade were the two books that I borrowed the most often. So when I heard that Nicky Cruz had a new book out, I immediately...
