The book describes the four women — Pruette ... Roosevelt would break that streak the same year when he nominated Frances Perkins for secretary of labor, a post she would hold throughout ...

In Book #104, page #130 of the North Carolina Land Grant Files, Rodeham Moore received a sixty-acre land grant in Surry ...

Kirstin loves history. She is a book author, published by Nan Talese at Doubleday/Random House. Her biography of Frances Perkins, “The Woman Behind the New Deal,” a portrait of the country’s ...

Frances Perkins retreated to her home in Newcastle when she wasn’t helping reshape American labor laws as Secretary of Labor under Franklin Delano Roosevelt. There are also local self-guided ...

At this year’s London Book Fair, U.S. agents will feature works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jinwoo Chong, Laila Lalami, ...

By chance, Romney, a rare-books collector, comes upon a 1778 novel by a woman who turns out to have been one of Jane Austen’s ...

The lives these 13 places honor, however, are groundbreaking and inspirational — from American Red Cross-founder Clara Barton, whose home in 1974 became the first site dedicated to a woman, to former ...

Author Frances Levine tells the stories of a mix of women, each with different and very personal reasons for taking America’s ...

In a newly reissued 1983 book, the radical feminist Andrea Dworkin argued that conservative women understood the reality of male domination. The famous Baltimore Orioles manager gets a vivid new ...

By Alexandra Jacobs A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, she went on to write about “hookup culture” and young women’s sexual experiences for The Washington Post and in a best-selling book.

These powerful girl names carry significant meanings, and allow your little one to share a name with a strong and inspiring ...

Here’s how it works. Seeing as the game is now over 50 years old, it's hard to narrow down the best D&D books. There are quite literally enough to fill a small library these days, so which ones ...