Linda Gordon

Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits
The life of the great photographer Dorothea Lange

"The Perils of Innocence, or What’s Wrong with Putting Children First"
Why children-first policies often hurt children

"The New Deal Was a Good Idea, We Should Try It"
Mistakes of the New Deal that Should Not be Repeated Now

Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence
How public and private institutions attempted to copy with child abuse and violence against women.

The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
When Irish orphans were placed in Mexican-American homes in Arizona in 1904, Anglos responded by kidnapping them.

The Moral Property of Women: The History of Birth Control Politics in America
Reproduction control has been controversial in the US for 150 years, and this book explains why.

IMPOUNDED: Dorothea Lange’s Censored Photographs of the Japanese American Internment during World War II, co-authored with Gary Okihiro
Commissioned by the Army to document the internment, Lange’s photographs were impounded and never before published.