Lois Scharf

She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1956 from the University of Michigan. After completing a master's degree in 1971 at John Carroll University, she taught there until 1977.{{sfn|John Carroll University|1971|p=10}}{{sfn|Brodsky|1977|p=13}} She was one of the early researchers into women's history, when women's studies courses began in the 1970s.{{sfn|Brodsky|1977|p=13}}{{sfn|Ware|1982|p=ix}} She completed her PhD in 1977 at Case Western Reserve University with the thesis The Employment of Married Women during the Depression, 1929–1941, studying under David Van Tassel.{{sfn|Copyright Office|1979|p=2594}}{{sfn|Page|1992|pp=101–102}} From 1978 to 1992, she was the executive director of the National History Day program.{{sfn|The Ohio Academy of History Newsletter|1992|p=1}}{{sfn|Encyclopedia of Cleveland History|2017}} Van Tassel, recruited Scharf for the post and her job entailed expanding the state-wide History Day project in Ohio to a National program. She was responsible for obtaining grants to fund the program and recruiting state historical organizations to join in the program. Under her leadership the program expanded from 19,000 student participants in the inaugural year of the contest to over 500,000 students in 1991.{{sfn|Page|1992|pp=101–103}} During the time that she served as executive director, she worked as an adjunct professor and lectured at Case Western Reserve University.{{sfn|Ridgely|1987|p=5}}{{sfn|Roark|1984|p=21}} She also published articles and reviews expanding the knowledge of women's working conditions, family organization, and feminism in the interwar period.{{sfn|Ridgely|1987|pp=5–6}}{{sfn|Wandersee|1981|p=159}}{{sfn|Annalora|2010|p=5}} Her book on Eleanor Roosevelt examined the first lady's place in the history of feminism, as though Roosevelt encouraged women to break boundaries, she openly opposed passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.{{sfn|Roark|1984|p=21}}{{sfn|Lightman|Lightman|1984}}

• {{cite conference |ref=none |last=Scharf |first=Lois |title=Marriage and Careers: Feminism in the 1920s |date=1975 |conference=Women Historians of the Midwest, Conference on the History of Women, October 24–25, 1975 |publisher=College of St. Catherine |location=Saint Paul, Minnesota}}{{sfn|Wandersee|1981|p=159}}
• {{cite conference |ref=none |last=Scharf |first=Lois |title=Economic Discrimination Against Married Women During the Depression |date=June 10, 1976 |conference=Berkshire Conference on Women's History |publisher=Bryn Mawr College |location=Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania}}}{{sfn|Wandersee|1981|p=159}}
• {{cite thesis |ref=none |last1=Scharf |first1=Lois |title=The Employment of Married Women during the Depression, 1929–1941 |type=PhD |date=1977 |publisher=Case Western Reserve University |location=Cleveland, Ohio |oclc=6714321}}
• {{cite conference |ref=none |last=Scharf |first=Lois |title='The Forgotten Woman': Working Women, The New Deal and Women's Organizations |date=April 17, 1979 |conference=Status of Women Conference, New York |publisher=Organization of American Historians |location=Bloomington, Indiana}}{{sfn|Wandersee|1981|p=159}}
• {{cite book |ref=none |last=Scharf |first=Lois |title=To Work and to Wed: Female Employment, Feminism, and the Great Depression |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gx-BAAAAMAAJ |year=1980 |publisher=Greenwood Press |location=Westport, Connecticut |isbn=978-0-313-21445-5}}
• {{cite journal |ref=none |last1=Scharf |first1=Lois |last2=Ware |first2=Susan |title=Holding Their Own: American Women in the 1930s |journal=The Journal of American History |date=September 1983 |volume=70 |issue=2 |publisher=Organization of American Historians |location=Bloomington, Indiana |page=455 |doi=10.2307/1900287 |jstor=1900287 |issn=0021-8723}}
• {{cite book |ref=none |editor-last1=Scharf |editor-first1=Lois |editor-last2=Jensen |editor-first2=Joan M. |editor2-link=Joan M. Jensen |title=Decades of Discontent: The Women's Movement, 1920–1940 |url=https://archive.org/details/decadesofdiscont0020th/page/4/mode/1up |edition=2nd |year=1987 |publisher=Northeastern University Press |location=Boston, Massachusetts |isbn=978-1-55553-013-6 |postscript=. 1st edition 1983.}}
• {{cite book |ref=none |last=Scharf |first=Lois |editor-last1=Jensen |editor-first1=Joan M. |editor-last2=Davidson |editor-first2=Sue |title=A Needle, a Bobbin, a Strike: Women Needleworkers in America |year=1984 |publisher=Temple University Press |location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |isbn=978-0-87722-340-5 |chapter=The Great Uprising in Cleveland: When Sisterhood Failed |pages=146–148}}
• {{cite book |ref=none |last=Scharf |first=Lois |title=Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of American Liberalism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cH2uAAAAIAAJ |date=1987 |publisher=Twayne Publishers |location=Boston, Massachusetts |isbn=978-0-8057-7769-7}}

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• {{cite thesis |last1=Annalora |first1=Amanda E. |title=Eleanor Roosevelt: The Ugly Duckling to the First Lady of the World |url=https://soar.suny.edu/handle/20.500.12648/5096 |hdl=20.500.12648/5096 |type=MSc |date=January 2010 |publisher=The College at Brockport, State University of New York |location=Brockport, New York |oclc=819665176}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Brodsky |first1=Judith K. |title=The Women's Caucus for Art |journal=Women's Studies Newsletter |date=Winter–Spring 1977 |volume=5 |issue=1–2 |pages=13–15 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40042430 |accessdate=November 18, 2020 |publisher=The Feminist Press at the City University of New York |location=New York, New York |jstor=40042430 |issn=0363-1133}}
• {{cite book |author=Copyright Office |title=Catalog of Copyright Entries |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vkAhAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA2594 |series=Third: July–December 1977 |volume=31, Part 1 |issue=2, Section 2 |year=1979 |publisher=Library of Congress |location=Washington, D. C. |issn=0041-7815}}
• {{cite web |last1=Lightman |first1=Joan |last2=Lightman |first2=Marjorie |title=Without Precedent: The Life and Career of Eleanor Roosevelt |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/joan-marjorie-lightman-eds-hoff-wilson/without-precedent-the-life-and-career-of-eleano/ |website=Kirkus Reviews |publisher=Kirkus Media |accessdate=November 18, 2020 |location=New York, New York |date=May 1, 1984 }}
• {{cite thesis |last1=Page |first1=Marilyn L. |title=National History Day: An Ethnohistorical Case Study |url=https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5914&context=dissertations_1 |type=PhD |date=September 1992 |publisher=University of Massachusetts |location=Amherst, Massachusetts |oclc=27261357}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Ridgely |first1=Julia |title=Changing Work, Changing Times |journal=WPI Journal |date=Autumn 1987 |volume=XCI |issue=2 |pages=i–vii |url=https://archive.org/details/wpijournal9192worc/page/n74/mode/1up |publisher=Worcester Polytechnic Institute |location=Worcester, Massachusetts |issn=0148-6128}}
• {{cite news |last1=Roark |first1=Anne C. |title=E.R.—The History Book Is Reopened (pt. 1) |date=May 8, 1984 |newspaper=The Los Angeles Times |location=Los Angeles, California |pages=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/63522825/the-los-angeles-times/ 1], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/63523221/the-los-angeles-times/ 20], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/63523313/the-los-angeles-times/ 21]|via=Newspapers.com}}
• {{cite book |last=Wandersee |first=Winifred D. |title=Women's Work and Family Values, 1920–1940 |url=https://archive.org/details/womensworkfamily00wini/page/159/mode/1up |year=1981 |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|isbn=0-674-95535-8}}
• {{cite book |last=Ware |first=Susan |editor-last1=Haber |editor-first1=Barbara |title=Holding Their Own: American Women in the 1930s |url=https://archive.org/details/holdingtheirowna00warerich/page/n14/mode/1up |series=American Women in the Twentieth Century |date=1982 |publisher=Twayne Publishers |location=Boston, Massachusetts |isbn=0-8057-9900-1}}
• {{cite web |ref={{harvid|John Carroll University|1971}}|author= |title=Commencement Program, 53 |url=https://collected.jcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1052&context=commencementprograms |website=Carroll Collected |publisher=John Carroll University |accessdate=November 18, 2020 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20201118151339/https://collected.jcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&httpsredir=1&article=1052&context=commencementprograms |archivedate=November 18, 2020 |location=University Heights, Ohio |date=May 23, 1971}}
• {{cite web |ref={{harvid|Encyclopedia of Cleveland History|2017}}|author= |title=National History Day, Inc. |url=https://case.edu/ech/articles/n/national-history-day-inc |website=Encyclopedia of Cleveland History |publisher=Case Western Reserve University |accessdate=November 18, 2020 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190818025740/https://case.edu/ech/articles/n/national-history-day-inc |archivedate=August 18, 2019 |location=Cleveland, Ohio |date=2017 |url-status=live}}
• {{cite journal |ref={{harvid|The Ohio Academy of History Newsletter|1992}}|author= |title=Perspectives |url=https://www.ohioacademyofhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/OAH_1992_04.pdf |journal=The Ohio Academy of History Newsletter |date=April 1992 |volume=XXIII |issue=2 |pages=1–2 |accessdate=November 18, 2020 |publisher=Ohio State University |location=Marion, Ohio |oclc=648976595}}

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