Why History Matters by Gerda Lerner
A combination of personal reminiscences and theory that illuminate the importance of history and the role that women have played in it. The topic's range from remembrances of the author's early life as a Jewish refugee in America to an essay on the nonviolent resistence from the Quakers to the civil rights movements in the 1950s.
Gerda Lerner (1920-2013) was a prominent historian, activist, educator, writer, and one of the founders of the study of women's history. She received her PhD in history from Columbia University, and at her first academic post at Sarah Lawrence College, she developed the first graduate program in women's history. She went on to teach at University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she created the first PhD program in women's history in the United States. Lerner is the editor of Black Women in White America: A Documentary History, and is the author of many publications, including The Creation of Patriarchy and Why History Matters: Life and Thought.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195046441 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195046447 |
| Title | Why History Matters |
| Author | Gerda Lerner |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1997-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 266 |
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