Empress Dowager CIXI: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America Empress Dowager CIXI: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt Sensational: The Hidden History of America's "Girl Stunt Reporters" The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America Women in Art: 50 Fearless Creatives Who Inspired the World Empress Dowager CIXI: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos Sensational: The Hidden History of America's "Girl Stunt Reporters" Women in Art: 50 Fearless Creatives Who Inspired the World The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan

Lesser Known Women Who Made History

By Book Riot

By Book Riot

Lesser Known Women Who Made History

This Women's History Month, learn about some of the lesser-known names of the women who have made history.

Empress Dowager CIXI: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Empress Dowager CIXI: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Jung Chang

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The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance...

Judy Batalion

$28.99
$26.96
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II

The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World...

Svetlana Alexievich

$18.00
$16.74
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies

The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and...

Jason Fagone

$28.99
$26.96
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and...

Martha S Jones

$18.99
$17.66
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of...

Saidiya Hartman

$17.95
$16.69
Sensational: The Hidden History of America's "Girl Stunt Reporters"

Sensational: The Hidden History of America's "Girl Stunt...

Kim Todd

$27.99
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory...

Dava Sobel

$20.00
$18.60
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

$18.99
$17.66
Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America

Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food...

Mayukh Sen

$26.95
$25.06
Women in Art: 50 Fearless Creatives Who Inspired the World

Women in Art: 50 Fearless Creatives Who Inspired the World

Rachel Ignotofsky

$16.99
$15.80
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in...

Kara Cooney

$18.00
$16.74
Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan

Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan

Ruby Lal

$27.95