America’s Women by Gail Collins

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Four centuries of American women — finally given their due. In America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines, Pulitzer-winning columnist Gail Collins delivers the sweeping history that the textbooks left out: four hundred years of American women — enslaved and free, famous and forgotten — who shaped the nation while history looked elsewhere.

From colonial midwives and mill girls to Rosie the Riveter, from suffragists to soccer moms, Collins blends meticulous research with her signature wit, rescuing extraordinary lives from the footnotes. She shows how women’s work — paid and unpaid, celebrated and invisible — built America just as surely as any battlefield or boardroom, and how the constraints changed shape even when they didn’t disappear.

Energetic, opinionated, and deeply readable, this is the one-volume women’s history to start with — as entertaining as it is essential, and a necessary corrective to every history you thought you knew.

Four Centuries of American Women Who Built a Nation

Who built America? Not just the founding fathers — but generations of women whose names rarely made the history books. America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines tells their story, from the colonial era to the modern age.

Across these pages, you will meet the pioneers, abolitionists, suffragists, factory workers, and activists who shaped the nation. You will discover how women’s roles transformed through revolution and civil war, the long fight for the vote, the rise of women in the workforce, and the social movements that redefined what women could be — all told with vivid anecdotes and the author’s trademark wit.

Gail Collins is an American journalist and op-ed columnist for The New York Times, where she became the first woman to serve as editorial page editor. Her sharp, engaging style has made American history accessible to millions of readers.

This book is perfect for history lovers, students, book clubs, and anyone curious about the untold half of the American story.

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