Sorry, couldn't think of a better title :D
This was a textbook I read (the combined volume/orange cover)for a class on women's history in the US. I study modern American history, so I choose to keep the second half of the textbook (the one with the dark red cover) (1900-present).
This is a book strong on analysis as well as chronological events. There are sections devoted to class/employment, racism, gender with analysis on how it affected the women's lives as well as the nation. This is a multicultural look at American history; as an example, Hattie McDaniel (civil rights leader), Jane Adams (humanitarian), and Lori Ann Piestewa (first Native American woman who died in combat -- OIF) are all headliners for their respective eras and discussions.
The analysis (especially economical) can be dry at times, but serves to provide much food for thought. Unlike other general women's history books, this book proves time and again that you can't lump us all into one faceless group; differences shaped how we saw the nation and our private eyes. There isn't the white-washing that brings down other books.
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