Nonfiction for Women’s History Month

Celebrate Women’s History Month with this selection of recently published memoirs and history highlighting women in the United States, and find more in our booklist Women’s History Month 2025.

The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America, 1963-1973 by Clara Bingham
Weaving together over 100 oral histories, Bingham brings to life the first ten years of an organized American women’s rights movement. Using both archival and original interviews, Bingham traces both historical moments – the founding of the National Organization of Women, Shirley Chisholm’s run for president, the legalization of abortion – with smaller, personal movements of living in that era.

Connie: A Memoir by Connie Chung
Connie Chung details her pioneering career as a journalist – including being the first Asian American to co-anchor a news program, and the first woman to co-anchor the CBS Evening News – in the face of racist and sexist systems and colleagues. Chung also dishes up details of her personal life.

How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music edited by Alison Fensterstock
Combining essays, interviews, and ephemera from more than 50 years of NPR coverage, Fensterstock presents a wide-ranging survey of the many impactful women in music over the last 100 years, from Mother Maybelle Carter to Barbra Streisand, Janis Joplin to Taylor Swift and beyond.

Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
In this lyrical biography, Gumbs pulls from the extensive archive of materials at Spelman College to present the life story of poet and activist Audre Lorde, including a deep dive into Lorde’s work. Gumbs also reflects on the limitations of biography, of being able to understand how another person experienced and interpreted the events of their life.

Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People by Tiya Miles
Miles presents both a traditional biography of Harriet Tubman as well as a contextualization of Tubman’s work on the Underground Railroad, presenting her as part of a larger faith and liberation community and highlighting the stories of other Black women doing similar work.

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