¹ Geraldine Jonçich Clifford passed away on September 12, 2024. “Geraldine Jonçich Clifford, 1931-2024,” San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 18, 2024, https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sfgate/name/geraldine-clifford-obituary?id=56334155.

² Jonçich Clifford, Geraldine, “Serendipity, or So It Would Seem,” in Leaders in the Historical Study of American Education, ed. Urban, Wayne J. (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2011), .Google Scholar

³ She received the Commonwealth Club Book Award in 1968 for The Sane Positivist: A Biography of Edward L. Thorndike (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1968). Commonwealth Club World Affairs, “The California Book Awards,” https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/special-events/california-book-awards/past-winners.

⁴ For two examples, see Geraldine Jonçich Clifford’s Division F Vice-Presidential Address, delivered at the American Educational Research Association, April 2, 1975: “Saints, Sinners, and People: A Position Paper on the Historiography of American Education,” History of Education Quarterly 15, no. 3 (Fall 1975), 257–72; and Clifford, “‘Shaking Dangerous Questions from the Crease’: Gender and American Higher Education,” Gender Issues 3, no. 2 (June 1983), 3–62.

⁵ Jonçich Clifford, Geraldine, Lone Voyagers: Academic Women in Coeducational Institutions, 1870-1937 (New York: Feminist Press, 1989).Google Scholar

⁶ Smith, Wilson, “The New Historian of American Education: Some Notes for a Portrait,” Harvard Educational Review 31 (Spring 1961), .Google Scholar

⁷ The quote is from John R. Thelin, “Joe Biden as Joe College,” Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 27, 2020, https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/10/28/historian-describes-how-joe-biden-was-regular-not-radical-student-1960s-opinion.

⁸ Jonçich Clifford, Geraldine and Guthrie, James W., Ed School: A Brief for Professional Education (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), .Google Scholar

⁹ Sarah Henry Lederman, review of “Equally in View”: The University of California, Its Women, and the Schools, by Geraldine Jonçich Clifford, History of Education Quarterly 39, no. 2 (May 1995), 207-8.

¹⁰ Jonçich Clifford, Geraldine, Those Good Gertrudes: A Social History of Women Teachers in America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), xii–xiii.Google Scholar

¹¹ “Geraldine Jonçich Clifford, 1931-2024,” San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 18, 2024.

¹² Quote from a conversation with Kim Tolley, 2010.

¹³ Respectively, the quotes are from Jackie M. Blount, review of Those Good Gertrudes: A Social History of Women Teachers in America, by Geraldine Jonçich Clifford, Education Review 23 (2016), https://doi.org/10.14507/er.v23.1978; and from Christine A. Ogren, review of Those Good Gertrudes, History of Education Quarterly 55, no. 4 (Nov. 2015), 500.