PhD, Yale, Russian history

Linda Gordon
Professor Emerita of History
U.S. social, political, and social policy history, 19th-20th century; women and gender; right-wing populism; documentary photography; Mexican Americans
Books
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Inge Morath: A Biography
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The Second Coming of the KKK: the Ku Klux Klan and the American Political Tradition(2017)
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Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond LimitsW. W. Norton, 2009.* Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for biography * Winner of the Bancroft prize for best book in US history * Winner of the National
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The Moral Property of Women: The History of Birth Control Politics in AmericaUniversity of Illinois Press, 2003.* This is a completely revised version of Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right.
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The Great Arizona Orphan AbductionHarvard University Press, 1999; paperback 2000.* Winner of the Bancroft Prize for best book in US history, * Winner of the Beveridge Prize for best book on the history of the Americas * Wi
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Pitied but Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the Origins of WelfareFree Press, 1994; paperback, Harvard University Press, 1995.* Winner of the Berkshire Prize for best book in women's history * Winner of the Gustavus Myers Award for best book on human rights in North Amer
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Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family ViolenceViking, 1988; paperback, Penguin, 1989; British edition, 1989.* Winner of AHA's Joan Kelly Prize for the best book in women's history or theory * Winner of the Wisconsin Library Association Outstanding Book
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Cossack Rebellions: Social Turmoil in the Sixteenth-Century Ukraine.SUNY Press, 1983.* Winner of the Antonovych Prize for 1983
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Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in AmericaViking, 1976; Penguin paperback, 1977; revised 2nd edition, 1990.* Nominated for the National Book Award in History, 1976
Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment, Norton, 2006.
Dear Sisters: Dispatches from Women's Liberation, with Baxandall, Basic Books, 2000.
America's Working Women: A Documentary History, with Baxandall and Reverby. Random House and Vintage, 1976; entirely revised 2nd edition, 1995.
Women, the State, and Welfare: Historical and Theoretical Essays. University of Wisconsin Press, 1990.
* Chicago Women in Publishing Award, First Place.
Many short pieces on the KKK, available at my website www.lindagordonhistorian.org
Interview with me in Modern American History, vol. 1 #1, March 2018.
Article about my work by John Pettegrew in Journal of Women's History vol. 30 #1
“History Constructs an Historian,” in Becoming Historians, ed. James Banner and John Gillis, University of Chicago Press, 2008.
“Dorothea Lange: The Photographer as Agricultural Sociologist,” Journal of American History 93 #3, December 2006.
“If the Progressives were Advising Us Today, Should We Listen?” Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive Era, April 2002.
"A Genealogy of 'Dependency': Tracing a Keyword of the US Welfare State," with Nancy Fraser, Signs, winter 1994, and in many anthologies.
"Social Insurance and Public Assistance: Gender in American Welfare Thought," American Historical Review, February 1992, and in several anthologies.
"Black and White Visions of Welfare, 1890-1945," Journal of American History, September 1991, and in several anthologies.
Interview on the craft and theory of history, by Carol Lasser, in Visions of History: Conversations with Radical Histori¬ans, Pantheon, 1984.