Research Guides: Women in American History: Find Books

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Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts
Call Number: E176 .R63 2004
Publication Date: 2004
From New York Times bestselling author Cokie Roberts comes Founding Mothers, an intimate and illuminating look at the fervently patriotic and passionate women whose tireless pursuits on behalf of their families-and their country-proved just as crucial to the forging of a new nation as the rebellion that established it.
A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry; Kali Nicole Gross
Call Number: E185.86 .B475 2020
Publication Date: 2020
In centering Black women's stories, two award-winning historians seek both to empower African American women and to show their allies that Black women's unique ability to make their own communities while combating centuries of oppression is an essential component in our continued resistance to systemic racism and sexism.
America's Jewish Women: a History from Colonial Times to Today by Pamela Nadell
Call Number: HQ1172 .N33 2019
Publication Date: 2020
In a gripping historical narrative, Pamela S. Nadell weaves together the stories of a diverse group of extraordinary people--from the colonial-era matriarch Grace Nathan and her great-granddaughter, poet Emma Lazarus, to labor organizer Bessie Hillman and the great justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to scores of other activists, workers, wives, and mothers who helped carve out a Jewish American identity.

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