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Microhistories

Women in Microhistories mainly - but some other notable ones!!!

The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America

Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World

The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

Women and gender history

Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France

Female Husbands: A Trans History

In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692

Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South

Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France

Female Husbands: A Trans History

Asian studies (nonfiction)

by AliceInAvonlea

Nonfiction to deepen your understanding of Asia (primarily China, for now)

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices

The Last Manchu: The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

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