Laura Lovett is a historian at the University of Pittsburgh, specializing in twentieth century U.S. women's history and the history of childhood and youth. She has published books on Free to Be … You and Me, the groundbreaking children’s media project that challenged gender norms in the 1970s, and the first biography of Dorothy Pitman Hughes, the African American childcare activist who fundamentally shaped the Feminist Movement. She is the founding co-editor of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, and with Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Alice Hearst, and Rachel Conrad edits the book series, Childhoods: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children and Youth, for University of Massschusetts Press.