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The founders established the Post Office before they had even signed the Declaration of Independence, and for a very long time it was the US government's largest and most important endeavor - indeed, it was the government for most citizens. This was no conventional mail network but the central nervous system of the new body politic, designed to bind 13 quarrelsome colonies into the United States by delivering news about public affairs to every citizen - a radical idea that appalled Europe's great powers.

A unique blend of personal reflection, creative histories, and interview-based nonfiction that vividly imagines the lives of Buddhist women over 2,500 years. Of Mud and Lotuses illuminates the hardships, resilience, and creative ways in which Buddhist women have applied the Dharma to daily life—often in ways that history has ignored.

The story of how America’s garden clubs became an unexpected force for social change—powered by a diverse cast of extraordinary women with big personalities, fabulous hats, and dirt under their fingernails who fought for suffrage, civil rights, environmental justice, and more. During World...

Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries—beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine...

Now an eight-part docuseries on Apple TV+ Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them—women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done. She couldn’t have been more than seven or...

Helen Lewis argues that feminism’s success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women who fought each other as well as fighting for equal rights. Too many of these pioneers have been whitewashed or forgotten in our modern search for feel-good, inspirational heroines. It’s time to reclaim the history of feminism as a history of difficult women.

FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF A TRAVEL GUIDE TO THE MIDDLE AGES In the year 1324, in the burgeoning town of Kilkenny, Ireland's second biggest town, there lived a wealthy, powerful woman named Dame Alicia Kyteler. After three of her husbands died suspiciously, and with the fourth...

Was wäre aus den berühmten Malern, Schriftstellern, Komponisten und Popstars geworden, wenn niemand da gewesen wäre, um sie zu inspirieren, zu trösten, zu korrigieren, zu managen, zu lieben? Von den antiken Musengöttinnen hin zu Christiane Vulpius, Anna Dostojewskaja, Gala Dalí, Véra Nabokov, Constanze Mozart, Uma Thurman und vielen anderen erzählt Elisa von Hof von den Frauen, die unsere Kunst und Kultur prägen, aber kaum anerkannt oder sichtbar gemacht werden.

Coded messages, hidden carvings, ciphered pendants: what if the secrets of the women of Renaissance England are hidden in plain sight? Now celebrated as an artistic and literary golden age, the Renaissance was more complicated—and turbulent—than we remember, especially for women. Royals vied...

From Cleopatra to Grace Kelly, an epic new history of royal women that shatters the myths we have built around them. 'Erudite, clever, brilliant' KATE MOSSE 'A royal smash. Kate Williams is at the top of her game' KATE LISTER 'A fascinating and excellent chronicle of female rulers' SIMON SEBAG...

Votes for Women! The Future Is Female! My Body, My Choice! Iconic rallying cries transformed women's rage into action in the struggle for equality, but without careful public relations campaigns, these slogans would have faded without impact. How did frustration transform into action, and hope...

‘Let it be remembered that insanity is still considered as more disgraceful than crime, and that it is therefore made the immediate interest of the family of the insane to bury her in oblivion . . .’ Today we are increasingly aware that poor mental health affects all of us, collectively if...

Embark on a riveting, real-life journey through history and mystery as two intrepid sleuths uncover secrets of their great-grandmother's enigmatic life. Set in the 1930's, the narrative of this tale weaves together threads of trauma and unexpected twists, immersing you in the resilient pursuit of a woman navigating the challenges of her era with unwavering grit.

Bloomsbury presents Hood Feminism written and read by Mikki Kendall. 'It is absolutely brilliant, I think every woman should read it' PANDORA SYKES, THE HIGH LOW ‘My wish is that every white woman who calls herself a feminist will read this book in a state of hushed and humble respect...

From the women who pounded the pavement selling their songs in Tin Pan Alley at the turn of the twentieth century; to the women who broke new ground writing shows during the Great Depression; to the women who penned protest musicals fighting for social justice during the 1970s; to those who are revitalizing the landscape of American musicals today, Women Writing Musicals: The Legacy That the History Books Left Out is the first-ever book to tell the story of the over three hundred inspiring women who wrote Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals.

This program is read by the author and includes clips from her testimony, a Trump rally, C-SPAN, CNN, and ABC News. The compelling true story behind the testimony that awed the nation On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which was...

La investigación para reconstruir las biografías y recuperar la memoria de estas milicianas, es el hilo conductor para explicar uno de los acontecimientos históricos más convulsos del siglo XX español desde una perspectiva de género.

FROM THE SHORES OF ULLAL TO THE HEART OF THE DECCAN A HISTORY WRITTEN IN FIRE. For too long, the legends of Karnataka have been dictated by conquerors, relegating the true history of valor to whispers. But historian Dr. Asha Rao is about to challenge the official record. Her discovery of three silent artifacts: A Portuguese battle dispatch, a scroll carrying an ancient ballad, and a powerful Mughal decree, opens a portal to three extraordinary lives that history was determined to forget.

From acclaimed historian and host of the Dirty Sexy History podcast Jessica Cale comes the gripping and untold history of contraception and abortion pre-Roe v. Wade that finally puts the intelligent, overlooked women who exercised unimaginable control over their fertility at the forefront...

Brought to you by Penguin. In the tradition of Janina Ramirez's Femina and Emily Hauser's Mythica, VICTORIANA is the revolutionary new history of the Victorians through the extraordinary and ordinary women written out of it. Victorian history, as we know it, is a story of power, progress, and...