Books like Madame Restell The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York’s Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist

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Say Anarcha A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women’s Health

J. C. Hallman

Themes: Gynecology & Obstetrics • Medical (incl. Patients) • Women's Health

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Blood & Ink The Scandalous Jazz Age Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime

Joe Pompeo

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • Legal History • Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)

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A Warrior of the People How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America’s First Indian Doctor

Joe Starita

Themes: Medical (incl. Patients) • Women's Studies • 19th Century

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All in Her Head The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us about Women’s Bodies and why it Matters Today

Elizabeth Comen

Themes: Medical (incl. Patients) • Women's Health • Women's Studies

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Essential Labor Mothering as Social Change

Angela Garbes

Themes: Medical (incl. Patients) • Women's Health • Women's Studies

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Iphigenia in Forest Hills Anatomy of a Murder Trial

Janet Malcolm

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • Legal History • Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)

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Bawdy City Commercial Sex and Regulation in Baltimore, 1790–1915

Katie M. Hemphill

Themes: Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) • Women's Studies • 19th Century

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A House in the Mountains The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism

Caroline Moorehead

Themes: Women's Studies • 19th Century • Social History

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What Would Mrs. Astor Do? The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age

Cecelia Tichi

Themes: Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) • 19th Century • Social History

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Life of the Marlows A True Story of Frontier Life of Early Days

William Rathmell

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • 19th Century • Social History

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Tom Horn in Life and Legend

Larry D. Ball

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • Legal History • 19th Century

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The Trials of Anthony Burns Freedom and Slavery in Emerson's Boston

Albert J. Von Frank

Themes: Legal History • 19th Century • Social History

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The Man in the Red Coat

Julian Barnes

Themes: Gynecology & Obstetrics • Medical (incl. Patients) • 19th Century

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The Sewing Girl’s Tale A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America

John Wood Sweet

Themes: Legal History • Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) • Women's Studies

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Womb The Inside Story of Where We All Began - Winner of the Scottish Book of the Year Award 2023

Leah Hazard

Themes: Gynecology & Obstetrics • Women's Health • Women's Studies

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Empire of Pain The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Patrick Radden Keefe

Themes: Pharmacology • Criminals & Outlaws • Medical (incl. Patients)

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Womb The Inside Story of where We All Began

Leah Hazard

Themes: Gynecology & Obstetrics • Women's Health • Women's Studies

#18

A Pickpocket’s Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York

Timothy J. Gilfoyle

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) • 19th Century

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The Cycle Confronting the Pain of Periods and PMDD

Shalene Gupta

Themes: Gynecology & Obstetrics • Women's Health • Women's Studies

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Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen The Emotional Lives of Black Women

Inger Burnett-Zeigler

Themes: Women's Health • Women's Studies • Social History

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The Harvey Girls Women Who Opened the West

Lesley Poling-Kempes

Themes: Women's Studies • 19th Century • Social History

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Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania’s Anthracite Region, 1880-2000

Karol K. Weaver

Themes: Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) • 19th Century • Social History

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The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton

Diane Atkinson

Themes: Legal History • Women's Studies • Social History

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The Radium Girls The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

Kate Moore (Writer and editor)

Themes: Women's Health • Women's Studies • Health & Fitness