A revelatory and immersive biography of a white Southern woman who was a key figure in the early civil rights movement, devoting her life to ending segregati...

One Hundred Years of Fighting argues that for a century the Equal Rights Amendment has been highly contested, divisive among women, and symbolic of drastic s...

A few of the new histories that caught our eye this month...

Joan Wallach Scott’s 1986 article “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis” turns 40 this year. Published in the American Historical Review, this article laid the ground on which Anglo-Ame…

A wealthy pastor’s wife with secrets, ambition, and a wicked wit tells all in Deesha Philyaw’s smart, saucy first novel.

Ten history books coming out this month that caught our eye

While mucking around in chapter four revisions, which have been taking a very (very) long time, one of the things I got stuck on was where to place a new paragraph. That may seem odd, given that th…

Like Lilith Fair before it, Daisy Chain Festival is about more than supporting gender equity.

A dozen takeaways for submitting authors, plus Aimee Liu's live video with William Morris Endeavor agent Dara Kaye

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I was bleary-eyed on a delayed flight when I spotted a New York Times article about Kerri Greenidge, a historian of Black political life and memory.

Adopting out puppies used to be easy. Especially when you have puppies as cute, sweet, and calm as the bunch I have. But times have changed and/or I’m fostering in a different way than I used to fo…

A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America

Maps, myths, and the lure of somewhere else.

Review of Richard Lenzi, Yankee Radical: Emily Pierson, Suffrage and Socialism (Albany: SUNY Press, 2026) 239pp. On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, which gave meaning to an a...

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