The American Revolution: An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns tackles the quiet but dangerous problem so many of us carry – a comforting, half-remembered myth of … Read more
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan is the book that finally looks suburban respectability in the eye and quietly asks, “Why are so many women still so unhappy?” The Feminine … Read more
The Girls of Atomic City fills a startling gap: it explains how ordinary young women—secretaries, operators, janitors—became the backbone of the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge, turning anonymous labor into … Read more
The Lady in Red peels back Georgian England’s gilded curtain to show a marriage, a courtroom and a culture built on property, gender and spectacle — and solves the puzzle … Read more