Book of Ages appears in 6 book lists

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Book of Ages appears in 6 book lists on Shepherd.

The best books that recover lost histories

Book cover of Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class Book cover of Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin Book cover of South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Book cover of All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake Book cover of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

The best books that show history is not just a record of facts but something made and crafted by historians

Book cover of Not By Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History Book cover of Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin Book cover of The Footnote: A Curious History Book cover of Style in History Book cover of History as Romantic Art: Bancroft, Prescott, Motley, and Parkman

The best books on Revolutionary America that go beyond the Founding Fathers and focus on the lives of women

Book cover of Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts Book cover of Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton Book cover of Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin Book cover of A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 Book cover of Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

The best books about women you’ve never heard of

Book cover of Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells Book cover of The Witch of Eye Book cover of The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up Book cover of The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper Book cover of Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin

The best stories on American women’s lives from the American Revolution to the late 19th Century

Book cover of Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin Book cover of Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations Book cover of More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave Book cover of A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 Book cover of The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Ninetenth-Century New York

The best books to open doors to Early America

Book cover of Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic Book cover of The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 Book cover of Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South Book cover of Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin Book cover of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877

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