Levke Harders: Thavolia Glymph, thank you for taking the time to have this conversa-tion about Gerda Lerner.1 You are the Peabody Family Distinguished Professor of His-tory at Duke University in the United States. Your work focuses on the history of the US South, on African American history, gender history, and the history of the US Civil War. Combining your research interests, you have recently published The Women’s Fight. The Civil War’s Battles for Home, Freedom and Nation.2 During your acade-mic career, you have been in close contact with Gerda Lerner. How did you meet her?Thavolia Glymph: My memory about our first meeting is a bit indistinct. But I do know that the first time, beyond conference sightings, we met in person was in Durham, North Carolina, only some twelve years before she passed away. My per-sonal (and academic) connection to Gerda Lerner was thus relatively short, much briefer than for many historians who knew her. But I felt already that I knew her because I knew her work, her body of scholarship. And if you know anything about her, you know that she was very strong in her opinions, and I liked that. She wel-comed me into her world, her life as an academic and her personal life. And so, we had many, many walks in Duke Forest and many conversations over coffee and sweets.