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CRRL Picks: Herstory - Women's History Month

Here are some of the most recent captivating non-fiction titles about courageous, leading, powerful, and inspiring women that are currently making or have made history.

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  • The Agitators

    Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights

    Wickenden, Dorothy
    Book, 2021New York : Scribner, 2021. — 920 Wi
  • The Apothecary's Wife

    the Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity

    Gevirtz, Karen Bloom, 1969-
    Book, 2024Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024] — 610 Ge
  • Black Women Taught Us

    An Intimate History of Black Feminism

    Jackson, Jenn M.
    Book, 2024New York : Random House, [2024] — 305.4889 Ja
  • The Bluestockings

    a History of the First Women's Movement

    Gibson, Susannah
    Book, 2024New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2024. — 920 Gi
  • Brilliant Exiles

    American Women in Paris, 1900-1939

    Asleson, Robyn, 1961-
    Book, 2024Washington, DC : National Portrait Gallery ; New Haven : in association with Yale University Press, 2024. — 704.042 As
  • The Correspondents

    Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II

    Mackrell, Judith
    Book, 2021New York : Doubleday, [2021] — 920 Ma
  • The Cure for Women

    Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever

    Reeder, Lydia
    Book, 2024New York : St. Martin's Press, 2024. — 921 Jacob
  • Fearless Women

    Feminist Patriots From Abigail Adams to Beyoncé

    Cobbs, Elizabeth
    Book, 2023Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023. — 305.4209 Co
  • Femina

    a New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It

    Ramirez, Janina, 1980-
    Book, 2023Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, 2023. — 305.409 Ra
  • Hail Mary

    the Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League

    De la Cretaz, Britni
    Book, 2021New York, N.Y. : Bold Type Books, 2021. — 796.332 De
  • How Women Made Music

    a Revolutionary History From NPR Music

    Book, 2024New York, NY : HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — 780.82 Ho
  • Let's Get Physical

    How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World

    Friedman, Danielle
    Book, 2022New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2022] — 613.71 Fr
  • The Mirror and the Palette

    Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience: Five Hundred Years of Women's Self Portraits

    Higgie, Jennifer
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2021. — 704.042 Hi
  • Mischievous Creatures

    the Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science

    McNeur, Catherine
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Basic Books, Hachette Book Group, [2023] — 509.2 Mc
  • The Once and Future Sex

    Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society

    Janega, Eleanor
    Book, 2023New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023] — 305.42 Ja
  • Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts

    Stories and Recipes From Five Generations of Black Country Cooks

    Wilkinson, Crystal
    Book, 2024New York : Clarkson Potter/Publishers, [2024] — 641.5975 Wi
  • She-wolves

    the Untold History of Women on Wall Street

    Bren, Paulina
    Book, 2024New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2024] — 332.62 Br