American Women

By Doreen Rappaport,

Book cover of American Women: Their Lives in Their Words

Book description

Excerpts from women's diaries, letters, speeches, and autobiographical writings provide a first-person look at the history of American women.


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1 author picked American Women as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Want to discover the vast collection of groundbreaking women in one volume? I can’t think of a better way than to investigate women in their time and read their own words in this book. Each woman featured is introduced by a discussion of why what she said and who she was influenced history.

I’ve used this book for quotes in addition to studying the importance of women leaders in different eras, from U.S. founding mothers and settling the West to worker rights and the women’s movements to vote and find equal treatment, something relevant today.

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