Women Rulers Throughout the Ages

Game Face

Originally the companion volume to a photographic exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution, this visual celebration of women's athletics combines more than 175 full-color and black-and-white photogra...

Mother Is a Verb

Welcome to a work of history unlike any other.Mothering is as old as human existence. But how has this most essential experience changed over time and cultures? What is the history of maternity—the hi...

Witness to Change

From her unique vantage point in New Orleans, Sybil Haydel Morial's life spans one of the most critical periods in our country's history. In this remarkable memoir, Morial chronicles her life as both...

A Lab of One's Own One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science

A riveting memoir-manifesto from the first female director of the National Science Foundation about the entrenched sexism in science, the elaborate detours women have taken to bypass the problem, and...