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  • Allison Lange The best new biographies of American suffragists Book cover of Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener Book cover of Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement Book cover of Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell Book cover of Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women's Activism in Modern America Book cover of Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
  • Katie McCabe The best books about Black women disruptors Book cover of The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice Book cover of Harriet Jacobs: The Remarkable Adventures of the Woman Who Wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Book cover of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision Book cover of Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All Book cover of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker
  • Elisabeth Griffith The best books about formidable Black women, whose lives mattered Book cover of When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America Book cover of The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family Book cover of Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell Book cover of Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South Book cover of The Personal Librarian
  • John Dear The best books on the greatest modern peacemakers Book cover of The Life of Mahatma Gandhi Book cover of Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. Book cover of All Is Grace: A Biography of Dorothy Day Book cover of At Play in the Lions' Den: A Biography and Memoir of Daniel Berrigan Book cover of Living With Wisdom: A Life of Thomas Merton
  • Kathryn Erskine The best books to discover fascinating people Book cover of Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker's Story Book cover of Me Llamo Celia/My Name Is Celia: La Vida de Celia Cruz/The Life Of Celia Cruz Book cover of Queen of Physics: How Wu Chien Shiung Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom Book cover of Malala's Magic Pencil Book cover of Sprouting Wings: The True Story of James Herman Banning, the First African American Pilot to Fly Across the United States
  • Anya Jabour The best biographies about American women activists Book cover of The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas Book cover of Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965 Book cover of Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement Book cover of Partner and I: Molly Dewson, Feminism, and New Deal Politics Book cover of Freedom's Teacher: The Life of Septima Clark
  • Mara Rockliff The best picture book biographies of Jewish women Book cover of Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909 Book cover of Emmy Noether: The Most Important Mathematician You've Never Heard of Book cover of I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark Book cover of Hedy Lamarr's Double Life: Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor Book cover of Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty
  • Christy Mihaly The best children's picture books about human rights and civic engagement Book cover of Let the Children March Book cover of Malala's Magic Pencil Book cover of No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History Book cover of Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt's Treasured Books Book cover of The Rooster Who Would Not Be Quiet!
  • Megan Marshall The best women’s writing on women’s lives Book cover of Alice James: A Biography Book cover of Véra: Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov Book cover of Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol Book cover of Sargent's Daughters: The Biography of a Painting Book cover of Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back
  • Jennifer Merz The best picture books on strong inspiring women Book cover of Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909 Book cover of Dangerous Jane: the Life and Times of Jane Addams, Crusader for Peace Book cover of Bloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli Book cover of Joni: The Lyrical Life of Joni Mitchell Book cover of Game Changers: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams
  • Natasha Wing The best children’s books about fabulous First Ladies Book cover of Leave It to Abigail!: The Revolutionary Life of Abigail Adams Book cover of Leading the Way: Women in Power Book cover of Just Being Jackie Book cover of First Ladies Fact Book: The Childhoods, Courtships, Marriages, Campaigns, Accomplishments, and Legacies of Every First Lady Book cover of Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment
  • Beryl Satter The best books on urban history Book cover of Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960 Book cover of Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place Book cover of Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty Book cover of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, with a New Preface Book cover of Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City
  • Jill Elaine Hasday The best books with women at the center of America’s stories Book cover of Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement Book cover of Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All Book cover of Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir Book cover of The Power of the Positive Woman Book cover of Rodham
  • Benjamin Reiss The best books to make you rethink 19th-century America Book cover of All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake Book cover of American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation Book cover of Of One Blood Book cover of Sheppard Lee: Written by Himself Book cover of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
  • Marilyn S. Greenwald The best books about activists who made sacrifices to change the status quo Book cover of The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life & Times of Harvey Milk Book cover of The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America Book cover of Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature Book cover of Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions Book cover of My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race, and Defiance
  • Fern Schumer Chapman The best books about making “good trouble” Book cover of March: Book One Book cover of Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice Book cover of Becoming: Adapted for Young Readers Book cover of Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice Book cover of Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • Jonathan Spyer The best books about the human impact of war Book cover of Lord of All the Dead Book cover of Magic Seeds Book cover of Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria Book cover of Das Reich: The March of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Through France, June 1944 Book cover of Killing Rage
  • Catori Sarmiento The best books about diversity in womanhood Book cover of Breasts and Eggs Book cover of Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000 Book cover of The Bread Givers Book cover of Song of a Captive Bird Book cover of Tipping the Velvet
  • Theresa Kaminski The best books on 19th-century women’s rights activists who weren’t Susan B. Anthony Book cover of Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol Book cover of The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe: A Biography Book cover of Lucy Stone: An Unapologetic Life Book cover of Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and The Scandalous Victoria Woodhull Book cover of The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights
  • Kathleen Stone The best family biographies with regional history in a starring role Book cover of Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty Book cover of Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty Book cover of Zabar's: A Family Story, with Recipes Book cover of Deep South Dynasty: The Bankheads of Alabama Book cover of The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
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