Abrams, L. (2002). The making of modern woman. London: Longman.
In the 1800s, Europe was transforming alongside the transformation of the women when this was seen as a predominately male society.  Using accounts of individual women, the experience of women from all over the continent is given.

Ahmed, L. (1992). Women and gender in Islam. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Adds to the debate about women and Islam through a historical perspective.

Banta, M. (1989). Imaging American women: Idea and ideals in cultural history. New York: Columbia University Press.
The visual and verbal image of women has affect the perception of the gender throughout history.  Banta discusses this history from Reconstruction to the end of World War II and how the image of the women was put in a nationalist light.

Brekus, C. (1998), Strangers & pilgrims: Female preaching in America, 1740–1845. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press.
Covering the years between 1740 and 1845, the stories of over a hundred women preachers are discussed.  Some of the women discussed: Sojourner Truth, Margaret Meuse Clay, and Harriet Livermore.

Cott, N. (1987). The grounding of modern feminism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
A history of the women’s movement at the beginning of the twentieth century with women’s suffrage.

Davidoff, L., & Hall, C. (1987). Family fortunes: Men and women of the English middle class, 1780-1850. Illinois: University of Chicago Press.
Through the use of a variety of primary documents of this time, gender roles are discovered within the middle-class.

de Gracia, V. (1992). How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922-1945. Berkley: University of California Press.
Mussolini was the first head of a government to include women in fascism, as a result, an interesting history of fascism and women can be learned.  Through primary documents, the author constructs the story of women that were given some freedom, but not all.

Erickson, A. (1993). Women and property in early modern England. New York: Routledge.
By reconstructing the day-to-day lives of women in the late 16th and early 18th centuries through little-known sources, the economic status of these women can be learned.

Evans, S. (1980). Personal politics: The roots of women’s liberation in the civil rights movement and the new left. New York: Vintage Books.
Dealing with a different organization in the Civil Rights Movement, the women side of the story is told predominantly through oral history.

Froide, A. (2005). Never-married: Single women in early modern England. New York: Oxford University Press.
The idea of a spinster or an old maid was something to be avoided, especially when a man was how a woman could be assured economic security. However, some women were not wed.  This book discusses their lives, and contrasts them with other women of their time.

Fuller, M. (1845). Woman in the Nineteenth Century.
Women’s issues of the 1840s dealt with a wide range of issues including prostitution, marriage, and employment.  As a feminist in her own age, Margaret Fuller addresses the issues of her day.

Gordon, L. (1988). Heroes of their own lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence. New York: Viking.
Domestic violence is not just a current issue.  Covering the history of domestic violence from 1880-1960 through primary sources, sources of the violence are explored.

Harline, C. (1994). The burdens of Sister Margaret. New York: Doubleday.
Based on Sister Margaret’s letters while a nun in Belgium during the Reformation, readers learn about the daily-life of a nun and how that was affected by the Reformation.

Hartman, M. (2004). The household and the making of history. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press.
The sources of the Industrial Revolution are often discussed, however, this book adds to the discussion by going many years earlier claiming that starting a family late caused the Western achievements.

Herlihy, D. (Ed.) (1995). Women, family, and society in Medieval Europe: historical essays, 1978-1991. Providence: Berghahn.
A collection of essays from one man who struggled to answer the basic questions about the history of the family.

Hesse, C. (2001). The other enlightenment: How French women became modern. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
The French Revolution gave women some rights, but it did not give them legal equality which effect female writers of the time.  The stories of women writers at this time as they fought the system in which they were place, readers explore the reforms and changes that eventually occurred.

Karlsen, C. F. (1999). The devil in the shape of a woman: Witchcraft in colonial New England. New York: Vintage Books.
During the 1600s, women were often accused of being witches, as historians go back they try to answer the question of “Why?”

Matthews, G. (1994). Woman’s power and woman’s place in seventeenth century America.  In The Rise of Public Woman Woman's Power and Woman's Place in the United States, 1630-1970 (pp. 13-31). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Previously, women did not have a place in the public sphere, but today women have a larger role in the public than ever before.  This book traces how the public sphere allowed women in due to changes in the culture and economy.

Matthews, G. (1994). Women and republicanism. In The Rise of Public Woman Woman's Power and Woman's Place in the United States, 1630-1970 (pp. 32-51). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Previously, women did not have a place in the public sphere, but today women have a larger role in the public than ever before.  This book traces how the public sphere allowed women in due to changes in the culture and economy.

Offen, K. (2000). European feminisms, 1700-1950: A political history. California: Stanford University Press.
A discussion of the feminism in Europe’s history through the comparison of countries allowing for a feminist approach to European history.  This discussion also allows for the dispersion of misperceptions about women in European history.

Reis, E. (1997). Damned women: Sinners and witches in puritan New England. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Through an exploration of Puritan theology, the Puritan view on women, and the Salem witchcraft trials, it can be clearly seen why women were more likely to be found guilty of witchcraft.

Stanton, E. C. (1848) Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions. In Stanton, E.C., Anthony, S.B., & Gage, M.J. (Eds.), The History of Woman Suffrage (Vol. 1, pp. 70-71). New York: Arno Press. Also can be accessed at: http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/docs/decl.html

On July 4, 1876, the women of the National Woman Suffrage Association adopted a document that served as their personal declaration of independence in that it established their rights. (http://books.google.com/books?id=l84TAAAAIAAJ)

Ulrich, L.T. (2007) Well-Behaved women seldom make history. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Through stories of different women, it can be seen why certain women end up remembered especially if they weren’t trying to be remembered and why other women did not end up remembered.

Ulrich, L. T. (2001). The age of homespun: Objects and stories in the creation of an American myth. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Through fourteen different artifacts from early American life, we can learn more about how they lived and who they were as people.

Ulrich, L.T. (1990). A midwife's tale: The life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Martha Ballard was a woman that lived in Maine who kept a diary of her experiences as a midwife.  Using these diary entries as starting points, the following essays explain how these essays show the prominent themes of early American history.