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The Saber and Scroll Journal • Volum
Welcome Letter
Welcome to the Summer 2020
nal. Since the 1960s, gender a
the pioneering efforts of great
(1876–1958), Eleanor Flexner (1908–1
Thanks to their efforts, along with many o
ies have continued to grow and develop i
percent of history. The journal staff hope
on women’s history and women historian
Mary Ritter Beard, an American h
en’s history activist, and author of Woman
and Realities (1946), spent a lifetime alo
Beard, researching and writing about wo
Paul, Eugenia Leonard, and Elizabeth Sch
en’s History Archives. Pioneering women
frage movement that victimized women
thought women should pave their own
civilizations.
Eleanor Flexner was a respected in
identified US History scholars of Wome
Century of Struggle: The Women’s Rights
which combined years of research of the
color activism, and the women’s labor mo
ciated with the academic community, he
nition and respect among scholarly histo
as Gerda Lerner.
Founder of the first, in American
gram at Sarah Lawrence College in 197
foundation began by Mary Beard and El
University at the age of forty-three in 1963
three short years. She chose Columbia du
to write her dissertation on women, The G
she was advised to hide her “special talen
an excellent social historian. Luckily for
women historians, Gerda could not push
not exist.
It has been my great privilege to b
lectual movement of the twentieth
—Gerda Lerner Living With Histo
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