Patricia Hart

Patricia Hart is a social and cultural historian with a focus on change in times of national crisis and the role of media in that process.  Her most recent book, A Home for Every Child (University of Washington Press), addresses the 19th century origins and practice of non-relative adoption in the United States.  Previous books include the edited Women Writing Women (University of Nebraska Press), and, with Ivar Nelson, Mining Town: The Photographic Collection of T.N. Barnard and Nellie Stockbridge (University of Washington Press).