Do We Still Need Women's History?

By ALICE KESSLER-HARRIS

In the spring of 2007, the Organization of American Historians (the nation's premier body of professional historians, teachers, and public advocates of U.S. history) asked me to take a look at what had changed in the profession with regard to the history of women and gender over the 100-year life span of the group. My findings would be part of a series of papers and panels that reflected on the evolution of American history and would, collectively, help celebrate the organization's