Tag: #historical
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What do a future ambassador, an overly ambitious Francophile, a hospital-volunteering Girl Scout, the new girl from Cleveland, the junior cheer captain, and the vice president of the debate club have in common? It sounds like the ridiculously long lead-up to an astoundingly absurd punchline, right? Except it’s not. Well, unless my life is the…
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Thrilling, daring, and downright gruesome stories from American history, in graphic novel form.
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Nonfiction Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore This book takes on what should be a more well-known historical case in the history of women’s rights and workers rights. The case of the Dial Girls who slowly poisoned themselves and the managers who tried to willingly ignore their complaints and…
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Power in Numbers: The Rebel Women of Mathematics by Talithia Williams This book doves into a field that I have little interest but still holds amazing forgotten women that basically helped create theories that provide the basis for so many things we have now. Curtained into three neat chapters of The Pioneers, From Code-Breaking to…
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Bad Girls by Jane Yolen and Heidi E. Y. Stemple This fun book gives a brief intro to the infamous bad girls of history from biblical figures such as Delilah and Jezebel to murderers like Lizzie Borden and Elisabeth Bálfory to possible innocents such as Tituba from the Salem Witch Trials. At the end of…
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In honor of Women’s History Month, here are some of my favorite nonfic books about historical and some present-day role models who broke boundaries and made (underrated) history.
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Here are two historical novels on little known events to peruse on your own time.
Rachel Reads & Reviews 