Additional recommended sources on Ruth Bader Ginsburg

General sources

ACLU Tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the ACLU Women’s Rights Project

 

Ginsburg’s writing, selected

with Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams, My Own Words (Simon & Schuster), 2016.

with Amanda L. Tyler, Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Persue: A Life’s Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union (University of California Press), 2021.

 

Biographies and Historical Background

Irin Carmin and Shana Knizhnik, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Dey Street Books), 2015.

Jane Sherron De Hart, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, A Life (Knopf), 2020.

Nancy MacLean, Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace (Harvard), 2006.

Serena Mayeri, Reasoning From Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution (Harvard), 2011.

Jeffrey Rosen, Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law (Henry Holt), 2019.

Katherine Turk, Equality on Trial: Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace (University of Pennsylvania), 2016.

 

Videos and interviews

RBG’s first C-SPAN interview, March 28, 1988. In this interview, RBG talked about her legal career, including her tenure as a lawyer, professor, and federal judge since 1980, when she was nominated for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia by President Carter.

A compilation of clips from RBG’s U.S. Supreme Court nomination hearings, which took place July 20-23, 1993. During the hearings, RBG responded to questions about a range of issues, including equal protection, gender discrimination, Dred Scott, race, the death penalty, Roe vs. Wade, and the correlation between slavery and abortion. She also talked about her life values personal encounters with gender discrimination.

Conversation with her close friend, Nina Totenberg, at the Sundance Film Festival, January 21, 2018. They discuss sexual harassment, opera, her place in popular culture, her marriage to Marty Ginsburg, and her long career in the law.