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The Majority Finds its Past

Posted on Monday, April 23, 2018
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Women

While still an undergraduate at the New School I offered my first course in Women’s History, “Great Women in American History” in the fall of 1962.

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The Majority Finds Its Past (1979)

Gerda Lerner

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