7 Books About Unsung Women in American Political History

Pioneering women who blazed a trail in U.S. politics

Victoria Woodhull speaking to a Congressional committee in 1871. (Illustration from Library of Congress and Wikimedia Commons.)

Have you heard about the woman who who ran for president in 1872, almost a half century before women had the right to vote? Or the farmer’s wife who lost her husband at a young age, then reinvented herself as a lawyer and became the first woman to argue a case before the Supreme Court? What about the first female…