Linda Gordon, Ph.D., is a distinguished professor of history at New York University, New York, NY and recipient of many awards and honors. She is also a Fellow, Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library, 2004-05. Her areas of expertise include orphans and single mothers. Recent books by Dr. Gordon include: The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction; Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America; Pitied but Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the Origins of Welfare. She is now working on a study of the photographer Dorothea Lange and the political culture of the New Deal and World War II.