Women and American History

Description
Books focusing on women and their role in American history, mostly in the 18th and 19th centuries. (Try to stick to history, rather than biography, here.)
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Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence
by Carol Berkin
442 members
8 reviews
3.9
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AnnaClaire
4
Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment
by Eleanor Clift
120 members
1 review
4.1
Member
AnnaClaire
5
The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth
by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
695 members
12 reviews
3.8
Member
AnnaClaire
7
The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835
by Nancy F. Cott
365 members
1 review
4
Member
AnnaClaire
8
The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
by Carol F. Karlsen
1,026 members
7 reviews
3.9
Member
AnnaClaire
10
America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
by Gail Collins
1,273 members
24 reviews
4.1
Member
AnnaClaire
11
Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
by Cokie Roberts
2,240 members
49 reviews
½ 3.5
12
No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting
by Anne Macdonald
580 members
5 reviews
4
13
Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America
by Sara M. Evans
503 members
3 reviews
3.8
15
Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States
by Eleanor Flexner
364 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
16
Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America
by Linda K. Kerber
328 members
2 reviews
4
17
A History of Women in America
by Carol Hymowitz
317 members
2 reviews
3.9
18
Never Done: A History of American Housework
by Susan Strasser
274 members
½ 3.7
19
The Grounding of Modern Feminism
by Nancy F. Cott
218 members
4.2