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Firebrands

by Jeana Jorgensen

Gioia Diliberto’s "Firebrands" visits the Roaring Twenties and beyond, revealing how four women’s efforts shaped the course of American history. When American women won the right to vote in 1920, some politicians assumed they would... Read More

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Naples 1343

by Meredith Grahl Counts

Amedeo Feniello’s cutthroat book "Naples 1343" reconstructs life and crime in Neapolitan history. Personal and inviting, with language that trades between academic and direct, this is a book built on the idea that the past reverberates... Read More

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The Apothecary's Wife

by Carolina Ciucci

Karen Bloom Gevirtz’s compelling history book The Apothecary’s Wife covers the commodification of medicine and the sidelining of women in medical history. In the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, the Scientific... Read More

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