Theresa Kaminski holds a PhD in history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her newest book, Dr. Mary Walker’s Civil War: One Woman’s Journey to the Medal of Honor and the Fight for Women’s Rights, is available now for pre-order from Lyons Press. She is the author of a trilogy of nonfiction history books on American women in the Philippine Islands during World War II, the last of which is Angels of the Underground: The American Women who Resisted the Japanese in the Philippines in World War II, published by Oxford University Press in 2015. She is currently completing the first full-length biography of America’s favorite cowgirl, Dale Evans. Theresa is quarantined with her husband in a small town outside of Madison, Wisconsin. They both really miss seeing their grandson, known as Double O, and, of course, his parents.

Theresa’s #read99women selection is Sarah M. Broom’s THE YELLOW HOUSE, “a beautiful, richly detailed memoir about the role of place in a family’s history. Broom deftly weaves in politics and history as she traces her family’s experiences in New Orleans, before and after Hurricane Katrina.” Says Theresa, “This won the 2019 National Book Award for Nonfiction, and I recommend it to everyone looking for a ‘real life’ story to read.”