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Microhistories

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

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 Return of Martin Guerre

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

Women and gender history

Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote

We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman

Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote

We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

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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