Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

Women's Studies

A Pioneer in Women’s History, Gerda Lerner (1920–2013)

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The Schlesinger Library's Gerda Lerner papers focus primarily on her life in the United States and on her professional life as a historian and activist, but in interviews in the collection and in her powerful memoir Fireweed, Lerner opens a window onto the early years that shaped the woman she became.