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
450 members
8 reviews
3.9
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AnnaClaire
4
Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment
by Eleanor Clift
121 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
694 members
12 reviews
3.8
Member
AnnaClaire
7
The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835
by Nancy F. Cott
366 members
1 review
4
Member
AnnaClaire
8
The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
by Carol F. Karlsen
1,031 members
7 reviews
3.9
Member
AnnaClaire
10
America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
by Gail Collins
1,275 members
24 reviews
4.1
Member
AnnaClaire
11
Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
by Cokie Roberts
2,251 members
49 reviews
½ 3.5
12
No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting
by Anne Macdonald
581 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
363 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
16
Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America
by Linda K. Kerber
329 members
2 reviews
4
17
A History of Women in America
by Carol Hymowitz
320 members
2 reviews
3.9
18
Never Done: A History of American Housework
by Susan Strasser
273 members
½ 3.7
19
The Grounding of Modern Feminism
by Nancy F. Cott
216 members
4.2