Hidden Histories of Women
The Hidden Histories of Women series uncovers the lives, labor, and legacies of women who shaped history—often without recognition, credit, or protection. From healers and innovators to writers, rebels, caretakers, and thinkers, these books examine how women's contributions were minimized, erased, or misattributed, and how those stories continue to echo today. Written in a narrative nonfiction style that blends historical research with reflective storytelling, these books invite readers to reconsider what history values - and who gets to be remembered.
These are not just stories of loss. They are stories of resilience, brilliance, and reclamation
The Blame: A Hidden History of Heresy, Genius, and the Violence of Erasure
From the first woman blamed for reaching toward a tree to the last one told her name didn't belong on her own discovery. In every sacred text, before the doctrine and the law, there was a woman they needed to erase.
The Blame recovers what was buried. From the divine feminine they wrote out of scripture to the scientists whose names migrated from first author to footnote to absence. From the midwives whose medicine became a death sentence to the artists who hid self-portraits in the margins of manuscripts no one thought to check. From the Malleus Maleficarum that gave men permission to burn women to the algorithms still calculating their silence at digital speed.
These additional resources are meant to enhance the reading of The Blame.
1. The Witchmaker: A Short History Before the Beginning (can be read before Part One of this book)
2. The Girl Who Wrote in the Margins: A Story After the Ending (can be read after Part Five of this book)
3. Author's Reflection on Writing The Blame
Women & Culture: The Americas and Beyond-Hidden Narratives of Power, Preservation, and Reclamation
Launching SOON! From the first corn ground on stone to the last language they were forbidden to speak. In every civilization, before the monuments and the empires, there were women's hands.
They ground the grain that fed nations. They wove the cloth that carried meaning. They tasted the plants that healed and the ones that killed. They kept the ceremonies alive when keeping them was punishable by death. They were humanity's first architects — of culture, of knowledge, of survival — and history erased them anyway.
Women and Culture recovers what was taken. From the Haudenosaunee clan mothers whose political systems inspired democracy to the enslaved African women who braided rice seeds into their hair so something from home would survive the crossing. From the healers burned as witches to the midwives whose medicine was stolen and renamed. From the boarding schools that cut the braids to the granddaughters now learning the languages that were supposed to die.
Hidden Histories of War
The Hidden Histories of War series examines conflict through the lives of those who carried its weight long after the fighting stopped—the caretakers, medics, builders, chaplains, laborers, and forgotten witnesses of war. Drawing from military history, anthropology, archaeology, and personal narratives, this series recenters war as a deeply human experience—one shaped by grief, endurance, duty, and moral complexity.
These books ask not how wars were won, but who paid the price—and how they were remembered.
Known Unto Us: The Hidden History of War's Caretakers
From ancient battlefields to modern war zones. In every conflict, after the last shot, someone stayed behind.
They are the gravediggers and stretcher bearers, the mortuary clerks and field chaplains, the nurses who closed the eyes and the mothers who never stopped searching. They carried not rifles but body bags. Not ammunition but silence. Not glory but grief.
We honor those who die in war with monuments and parades. But the ones who return bearing the weight of broken bodies and unfinished names are rarely seen, rarely spoken of, rarely remembered.
Known Unto Us traces the hidden history of war's caretakers — from the fossores who carved burial chambers beneath Rome to the young soldiers who disinterred their comrades in the frozen fields of Bastogne. From the freedmen who sang spirituals over segregated graves to the mortuary specialists working the night shift at Dover Air Force Base. From the Gold Star mothers who crossed an ocean on segregated ships to the forensic anthropologists still searching for the 81,500 Americans never brought home.
This is not a book about war. It is a book about what war leaves behind — and the people who refused to let the dead be forgotten.
The Healers' Burden: Those Who Bound the Wounds and Fed the Hungry
Launching SOON! From ancient firelight to modern front lines. In every war, before the first shot and long after the last, someone kept the living alive.
They are the medics and the mess sergeants, the battlefield surgeons and the camp cooks, the nurses who held a soldier's hand through amputation, and the women who stirred broth by lantern light so the wounded had something warm to swallow. They carried not weapons but bandages, not orders but bread. Their labor was constant, invisible, and essential.
The Healers' Burden recovers the twin histories that military tradition has left behind: the hands that bound the wounds and the fires that fed the hungry. From the priest-physicians of ancient Mesopotamia to the combat medics of Afghanistan. From the Indigenous herbalists whose knowledge was taken without credit to the enslaved laborers who cooked for armies that would never free them. From Florence Nightingale's wards to the humanitarian kitchens of World Central Kitchen.
The herbs that heal are often the same plants that nourish. The women who followed armies often did both—nursing by day and feeding by night. To separate these histories is to accept an erasure this book refuses.
Hidden Histories of Material Memory
Hidden Histories of Material Memory explores how objects, landscapes, and the natural world carry human stories long after voices fade. This series looks beyond written records to the physical traces of human experience—stones stacked in mourning, tools worn smooth by use, fragments buried in soil, and landscapes shaped by labor, loss, and care. These are not passive remnants. They are witnesses.
Through archaeology, anthropology, cultural memory, and lived experiences, this collection asks: What do materials remember?
These stories remind us that memory does not live only in books. It lives in the earth. And the earth remembers us.
Collecting Stones: A Hidden History of Humanity
Launching 2028! From the first hand that closed around a stone to the last one placed on a grave where no body lay. Before we had words for grief, we had weight.
We cracked nuts with them before we sharpened them into blades. We ringed our fires with them before we built our walls. We stacked them over the dead before we learned to write their names.
Collecting Stones follows the oldest human instinct through five movements: survival, memory, power, witness, and release. From the grinding stones that fed civilizations to the cairns that held grief when bodies couldn't be found. From the roads that carried empires to the thrown rocks that resisted them. From the child who bends to pick up a pebble no one told her to keep to the adult who carries a stone from a place of unspeakable loss and cannot explain why—only that the hand would not let go.
This is not a book about collecting rocks. It is a record of listening—to the weight in the palm, the silence beneath monuments, and the quiet insistence of stone that some things must be carried, and some things must be set down.
What begins as a grip becomes a grief. What begins as weight becomes a way of knowing the world.
The Vessel: A Hidden History of Tended Things
Launching 2028! Before we had a word for craft, we had the instinct to hold.
We hollowed gourds before we shaped clay. We wove baskets before we built walls. We lined pits with mud to keep the harvest through winter, and when fire taught us what clay could become, we made pots that outlasted the hands that shaped them.
The Vessel follows the oldest human instinct through the history of what we made when we needed to hold. From the cupped palm that could not be set down to the baskets that carried everything a people knew. From the cooking pot that made civilization possible to the glass that let us see flame without touching it.
This is not a book about collecting pottery. It is a record of tending — the fires that could not tend themselves, the knowledge that lived in hands and not in books, and the quiet revolution of making something to hold what the body could not carry alone.
What begins as an instinct becomes a craft. What begins as holding becomes a way of keeping the world alive.
Collecting Water: The Hidden History of Survival
Launching 2028! Collecting Water: A Hidden History of Survival explores humanity’s profound relationship with water through history, memory, ritual, and survival. Blending anthropology, environmental humanities, and narrative nonfiction, the book traces how water has shaped human life—not only as a physical necessity, but as a cultural, spiritual, and emotional force.
From the first cupped hands that carried water to sacred rivers, mourning rituals, and modern struggles over access and control, Collecting Water reveals how societies across time have understood water as both sustenance and symbol.
Structured through artifacts, intermissions, and cultural reflections, the narrative invites readers to see water not simply as a resource but as a witness to human history—flowing through migration routes, sacred traditions, grief, resistance, and renewal. Where stone remembers by staying, water remembers by moving, carrying stories across generations and landscapes.
Ultimately, Collecting Water asks what it means to hold, carry, and return the mo