A compelling, touching, and often naughty collection of tell-all accounts of women's first same-sex encounters....

Biondo Flavio (1392-1463), humanist and historian, was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance recovery of classical antiquity. While serving a number of the Renaissance popes, he inaugurated an extraordinary program of research into the history, institutions, cultural life, and physical...

This volume, which spans the long period from the sixteenth century through the Civil War era, is remarkable for the religious, racial, ethnic, and class diversity of the women it features. Essays on plantation mistresses, overseers' wives, nonslaveholding women from...

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One hundred profiles of women who made a difference in Nevada history....

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    Sherwood Anderson: A Writer in America is the definitive biography of this major American writer of novels and short stories, whose work includes the modern classic Winesburg, Ohio. In the first volume of this monumental two-volume work, Walter Rideout chronicles...

In his five volume epic autobiography, John Sanford once again juxtaposes reminiscence with documentary material—not only brief, lyrical bio-vignettes on earlier American heroes and heroines, but also excerpts from personal letters, diaries and transcripts of court testimony—to build an impressive...

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A dazzling and provocative examination of the persistent cultural image that is the cyborg....