Educated at the New School for Social Research and Columbia University (PhD, 1966), she worked ceaselessly to establish women's history as a legitimate field of scholarship. Gerda Lerner, the second woman to serve as president of the Organization of American Historians, died on January 2, 2013, in Madison, Wisconsin, at age ninety two. The following remembrance of Gerda Lerner was prepared by Mari Jo Buhle, and appeared in the February 2013 issue of OAH Outlook. Gerda Lerner, past president of the Organization of American Historians (1981-1982), and pioneer in women's and gender history, passed away on Januat the age of 92.
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