Women's History

This book chronicles the work of Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party and their influence on American political activism.

The intimate, inspiring, and authoritative biography of Sandra Day O’Connor, America’s first female Supreme Court justice, drawing on exclusive interviews and first-time access to Justice O’Connor’s archives

This anthology looks at female role models and subversives from the last century who stood up for their visions and ideals and continue to stand for them today.

Brings to print two of Jane McCallum’s most important unpublished diaries chronicling the struggle of Texas suffragists to win the vote from the viewpoint of one of the movement’s most active participants.

The singular biography of a forgotten abolitionist and educator for young adults.

Exquisitely crafted patchwork of the forgotten lives of some of the most remarkable women in history.

Shines a much-needed light on the bright female minds history forgot, from pioneering database poets, data wranglers, and hypertext dreamers to glass ceiling-shattering dot com-era entrepreneurs.

Recounts the formidable life of the militant writer, orator, and agitator Lucy Parsons.

Explores a variety of roles women played on the western ranch. The essays cover a range of topics, from early Tejana businesswomen and Anglo philanthropists to rodeos and fence-cutting range wars.

The first book devoted entirely to the woman who served folks on both sides of the border as doctor, lawyer, midwife, herbalist, banker, self-appointed justice of the peace, and coroner from 1943 until her death in 1965.

Explores the life of German-born Elisabet Ney, a flamboyant sculptor who transfixed the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer and left the court of the half-mad Ludwig of Bavaria to put down new roots in Texas.