Draft:Sara Alpern-Tarlow

Sara Alpern-Tarlow (also known as Sara Alpern), taught U.S. history at Texas A&M University for more than 40 years. She created and taught throughout her years there the History of American Women and being one of four who created a Women’s Studies program. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.

She also became the first President of an official Women’s Faculty Network at Texas A&M.

Alpern is the author of "Freda Kirchwey: A Woman of the Nation", published in 1987 by Harvard University Press. Kirchwey was the editor, owner and publisher of The Nation magazine, and was one of the few in the United States to use her news outlet to expose the facts of the Holocaust. Alpern contributed and served as a co-editor of "The Challenge of Feminist Biography: Writing the Lives of Modern American Women." She has written on a number of topics in women’s history, including the effects of woman suffrage, the history of eating disorders among women and the history of women in management. Her article, “Harriet Williams Russell Strong: Inventor and California Businesswoman Extraordinaire” (2005), is part of a book on the history of women in business.

In retirement, she authored the children's picture book biography, "How Can I Change That? The Story of Advertising Woman Dorothy Dignam," to speak to her granddaughter and other young girls to reach for their dreams and to let no one stifle their potential.