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Women's History
Interviews with scholars of women's history about their new books.
November 3, 2026
Her Own Voice
Be the main character in the story that is your life – that is the ambition of eight remarkable women featured in Anne Fernald’s collective biography,…
November 1, 2026
Art for the White House
With Art for the White House: A Changing Portrait of America (White House Association, 2026), Leslie Greene Bowman presents a wholly new perspective o…
October 31, 2026
Hollywood Renegade
Todd Berliner's Hollywood Renegade: Elaine May, Mikey and Nicky, and the Making of a Masterpiece (U Texas Press, 2026) examines Elaine May’s Mikey and…
October 30, 2026
Eating Grasshoppers
Eating Grasshoppers: Chapulines and the Women Who Sell Them (U Texas Press, 2025) is an approachable ethnography of how grasshoppers are harvested, so…
October 30, 2026
El Salvador Reborn
El Salvador Reborn: Abortion, Environment, and the Politics of Survival in a Postwar Nation ( examines the nation’s efforts to reshape its identity af…
October 29, 2026
How Bright the Path Grows
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Franchise comes How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington (P…
October 29, 2026
Never Caught
When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation’…
October 22, 2026
Justice Was Her Calling
Before Ruth Bader Ginsburg persuaded the Supreme Court to strike down sex discrimination, Dorothy Kenyon drew the legal blueprint. Justice Was Her Cal…
October 20, 2026
Searching for Jane Crow
In Searching for Jane Crow: Black Women and Mass Incarceration in America from the Auction Block to the Cell Block (Beacon Press, 2022), historian Tal…
October 17, 2026
Monstrous Bitch
For as long as human societies have been telling stories, the patriarchy has felt threatened by women. In this book, Eleanor Johnson provides an engag…
October 17, 2026
Reading for Pleasure
Lise Shapiro Sanders is the author of Reading for Pleasure: Working Women and the Popular Romance in Early 20c Britain, published in October 2026 by B…
October 17, 2026
An Inconvenient Woman
Born in Florida to a religious family, Lillian Smith (1897-1966) was a white Southern woman living in the Jim Crow South who defied all stereotypes: S…
October 16, 2026
Presidentess
The first full biography of the controversial and complex First Lady Julia Gardiner Tyler--an unjustly scandalized New Yorker, the second wife to Pres…
October 13, 2026
Inquisition for Blood
For three years in the early 1900s, a serial killer zigzagged across the rice belt region of the United States, using an everyday ax to slaughter Blac…
October 6, 2026
Flannery and Regina
The story of two women in the mid-twentieth-century South navigating financial independence, a changing rural landscape, and social norms. Flannery an…
October 6, 2026
Women in Comics
Susan E. Kirtley and Nhora Lucía Serrano's Women in Comics (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2026) is a richly illustrated, essential guide to the importanc…
September 30, 2026
Strong State, Weak Links
In the early twentieth century, most US states established eugenics programs to improve the human race through selective breeding. North Carolina ran …
September 29, 2026
How Bright the Path Grows
There is no shortage of footage immortalizing the men who spoke at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, when 250,000 Americans gathered …
September 26, 2026
Femmephilia
This episode’s centers on Sophie Lewis’s new book Femmephilia. A collection of essays published in various outlets over the last several years, this b…
September 24, 2026
Tsunami
Featuring personal essay, manifesto, creative nonfiction, and poetry, Tsunami: Women’s Voices From Mexico (Feminist Press, 2025) gathers the multiplic…