women's history month

The Brentwood Library Reference staff recommends
the following titles for your reading enjoyment.
 

CALL NUMBER

TITLE

AUTHOR

305.4 ROW

A Century of Women : the history of women in Britain and the U.S.

Sheila Rowbotham

920 DUN

Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, rivals, queens

Jane Dunn

92 DON

Emily Donelson of Tennessee

Pauline Burke

920 ALE

Fifty Black Women Who Changed America

Amy Alexander

781.642 BUF 2003

Finding Her Voice : Women in Country Music 1800-2000

Mary Bufwack

323.092 OLS

Freedom's Daughters The unsung heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830-1970

Lynne Olson

92 GEL

Gellhorn : A Twentieth-Century Life

Caroline Moorehead

305.42 HEY 2003

Georgetown Ladies' Social Club

C. David Heymann

92 TUB

Harriet Tubman : The Road to Freedom

Catherine Clinton

305.42 BRO

In Our Time : Memoir of a revolution

Susan Brownmiller

92 ADD

Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy : A life

Jean Eishtain

92 NOO

Leap of Faith : Memoirs of an Unexpected Life

Queen Noor

92 JON

Mother Jones : The most dangerous woman in America

Elliott Gorn

920 FLE 2003

Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckley: The remarkable story of the friendship between a first lady and a former slave

Jennifer Fleischner

305.42 WAR

Not for Ourselves Alone - Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony:

The story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Geoffrey Ward

305.42 PEA

Pioneer Women : the lives of women on the frontier

Linda Peavy

92 POC

Pocahontas : Medicine woman, spy, entrepreneur, diplomat

Paula Allen

920 ROO

The Roosevelt Women : A Portrait in five generations

Betty Caroli

331.4 BRO 2002

Rosie's Mom : forgotten women workers of the First World War

Carrie Brown

305.48896 HIN

A Shining Thread of Hope : the history of Black women in America

Darlene Hine

942.052 STA 2003

Six Wives : The Queens of Henry VIII

David Starkey

92 ANT

Susan B. Anthony

Brenda Stalcup

940.541373 GRU

They Also Served: American women in World War II

Olga Gruhzit-Hoyt

641.50973 SCH 2003

A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove :

   A history of American women told through food, recipes, and remembrances

Laura Schenone

305.4 YOU

The Tried and the True : Native American women confronting colonization

John Demos

975.030922 SUL

The War the Women Lived : Female voices from the Confederate South

Walter Sullivan

973.715 EGG 2003

Women in the Civil War :

   Extraordinary stories of soldiers, spies, nurses, doctors, crusaders and others

Larry Eggleston

973.2 HOL 1990

Woman's Life in Colonial Days

Carl Holliday

940.1 WOM

Women's Lives in Medieval Europe : A sourcebook

Emilie Amt

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