March 20, 2025 at 6 PM
Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor
151 W. Wood St. Youngstown, OH 44503
Sponsored by the Darling and Reeder Endowments in History
Dr. Linda Gordon will deliver a talk about the “The Much Misunderstood Women’s Liberation Movement.”
Linda Gordon is a professor of history and a University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. Her early books focused on the historical roots of social policy issues, particularly as they concern gender and family issues. Her 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). She is one of only three historians to have won the Bancroft Prize twice.
