Just in time for Women’s History Month, Miki Turner’s long-awaited photo book, Journey to the Woman I’ve Come to Love, is now available.  It is an empowering and inspirational photo book filled with the affirmations of an incredible group of diverse women answering one question:   At what point did you fall in love with yourself?  [...]

Women’s Work in WWII is a book of little stories about personal struggles that melded into a revolution. It tells the chronological story about the zigzag social and political developments that enabled U.S. women to gain equal employment with the parallel story of WWII.  It documents the history of millions of women working in thousands [...]

Miniver Press is delighted to announce our first Kindle single, a 99 cent short biography of Bessie Coleman by John B. Holway, author of the book about the Tuskegee Airmen that inspired the George Lucas film, “Red Tails.”  It was 90 years ago today that Bessie Coleman became the first black woman to fly a plane [...]

In the span of a few months, i’ve read more than 3 books in between doing school work and in between writing for 4-5 platforms.  Reading frequently not only enhances your memory but it enriches you with knowing more than you did before. No, this is not a service announcement but a fact.
Anyways, How to [...]

In honor of International Women’s History month, we selected this book review to celebrate this wonderful holiday.
Diplomats and Dreamers turns a historical narrative into a thrilling tale of adventure, politics and familial bonds. The author has used humor, and surprise to write about a complex subject of Balkan diplomacy and its actors. The text often [...]

NWHP’s blog is spotlighting book reviews written in honor of Women’s History Month.
I recently finished a book on the Congresswoman, Activist and Attorney Bella Abzug.  The book is called:  Bella How one tough broad from the bronx fought Jim Crowe Pissed off Jimmy Carter Battled for the Rights Women and Workers Rallied against War and for [...]

A Dangerous Woman: The Life, Loves, and Scandals of Adah Isaccs Menken (1835 – 1868) – America’s Original Superstar. Menken was the most prominent actress in Civil War America, an active participant in the struggle, and a pivotal figure in the history of entertainment. Onstage, her signature role was Prince Mazeppa, the freedom fighter based [...]

Sylvia Hoehns Wright is  a consultant, lecturer & wordsmith that specializes in business, environmental and communications theories.
She has been the recipient of the 2008 Turn America from Eco-weak to Eco-chic Award and the 2005 VA Horticulture Foundation faculty travel award.  Wright is an avid landscape gardener and conducts eco-gardening workshops and was featured by VA [...]

In lieu of the National Women’s History Project’s 30th anniversary, we want to spotlight Gerda Lerner, an important scholar who is credited for teaching the first women’s history course in the nation, establishing the first graduate program in women’s history and with  mentoring women’s history scholars.
Her book “Living History and Making Social Change” is a medly [...]

(Courtesy Fine Books & Collections magazine)
Sometimes a book comes along, smacks readers in the head, alleviates our ignorance, and leaves us with a new perspective on something we thought we already knew.
That’s what happened when I read Following the Drum: Women at the Valley Forge Encampment (Potomac Books, 2009) by former historic interpreter Nancy Loane. The title [...]