Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

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January 30, 2013

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.

December 7, 2012

Recently, an especially fragile scrapbook, created by the World War I nurse Beatrice MacDonald, came to Schlesinger Library’s conservation department. The scrapbook is part of the Ann Fraser Brewer Papers.