Louise Tilly's dedication to social and women's history helped open the study of history to the lives of common people and paved a pathway for women in the discipline of history. Her research notes and letters attest to her commitment to an empiricist and archival approach that would articulate and complicate broader theoretical questions. In her correspondence with Joan Wallach Scott, we see the intellectual challenges the two faced when they found that the questions they wanted to ask required that they develop new methods and different interpretive lenses than those the discipline of history conventionally used. In this letter to Scott, Tilly begins by expressing the difficulties she faced as a professor and chair of women's studies in the 1970s.

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