Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon, and Astrid Henry. Norton/Liveright, $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-87140-676-7
Dividing their history into three periods and covering one each, scholars Cobble, Gordon, and Henry (professors at Rutgers, NYU, and Grinnell College respectively) examine the multiple strains of American feminism. Featuring lesser-known activists,...
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Linda Gordon, Author . Norton $35 (536p) ISBN 978-0-393-05730-0
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Historian Linda Gordon presents us with a portrait of the artist as a woman in her fascinating new biography of photographer Dorothea Lange [1895–1965], who captured the images of Americans on the move...
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Linda Gordon, Author Harvard University Press $32.5 (456p) ISBN 978-0-674-36041-9
In 1859, the New York Times termed urban orphans the ""ulcers of society."" By 1864, child welfare crusaders were advocating their adoption by rural families and sending trains full of orphaned and abandoned children westward. As Gordon documents in
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Linda Gordon. Liveright, $27.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-63149-369-0
Gordon (Impounded), professor of history at NYU and two-time Bancroft Prize winner, delves into the cultural and societal conditions that led to the resurgence of the KKK during the 1920s. The work is explicitly informed by the 21st-century rise of...
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