Linda Gordon

Position title: Emeritus Professor

Biography

I am currently a professor of history and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. My early books focused on the historical roots of social policy issues, particularly as they concern gender and family issues. In my later books, I explored other genres of history. My recent books include: The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (1999) and the biography of great photographer Dorothea Lange (2009), both of which won the Bancroft Prize for best book in US history; Impounded (2008); Feminism Unfinished (2015); The Second Coming of the KKK (2017). My most recent book is another biography of a photographer, Inge Morath: An Illustrated Biography (2018).

Books

Linda Gordon. Inge Morath: An Illustrated Biography. Prestel Publishing, 2018.
Linda Gordon. The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition. Liveright, 2017.
Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon, and Astrid Henry. Feminism Unfinished A Short, Surprising History of American Women’s Movements. Liveright, 2015.
Linda Gordon, and Dorothea Lange. Dorothea Lange: Aperture Masters of Photography. Aperture Publishing, 2014.
Linda Gordon. Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits. W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.
Linda Gordon. The Moral Property of Women: The History of Birth Control Politics in America. University of Illinois Press, 2007.
Linda Gordon (Editor), and Gary Y Okihiro (Editor). Impounded Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment. W. W. Norton & Company, 2006.
Linda Gordon. Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence–Boston, 1880-1960. University of Illinois Press, 2002.
Rosalyn Baxandall (Editor), and Linda Gordon (Editor). Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women’s Liberation Movement. Basic Books Publishing, 2001.
Linda Gordon. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. Harvard University Press, 2001.
Rosalyn Baxandall (Editor), and Linda Gordon (Editor). America’s Working Women: A Documentary History, 1600 to the Present. W. W. Norton & Company, 1996.