Timothy P. O'Hanlon

My writing reflects two divergent experiences, a teacher and professor of history and a social policy analyst and child welfare advocate.

In the latter capacity, I have publised a number books on federal adoption assistance programs for families that adopt special needs children. These include:

• A User's Guide to Federal Adoption Assistance in Ohio, (E-Book), 2007.

• Stepparent Adoption: A Resource Book (E-Book). Gilbert, AZ: Adoption Media LLC, 2004.

• A Practical Guide to Adoption Subsidy for Adoptive Families and Advocates (E-book). Gilbert, AZ: Adoption Media LLC, 2004, Revised 2007.

• Adoption Digest, Stories of Joy, Loss, and the Journey (with Dr. Rita Laws). Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 2001.

• Adoption and Financial Assistance; Tools for Navigating the Bureaucracy (with Dr. Rita Laws). Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1999.

• Accessing Federal Adoption Subsidies After Legalization. Washington, DC: The Child Welfare League of America, 1995.

For over a decade, I have maintained the Adoption Policy Resource Center, at www.fpsol.com/adoption/advocates.html. web site for adoptive families attorneys and advocates. I plan to writing general articles on adoption assistance for special needs children and other social policy issues.

I have published a number of scholarly articles on American social history topics ranging from athletics and American society to the role of General Motors in replacing electric streetcars with diesel busses after World War II. Fifty years later, we have returned to light rail as a more environmentally friendly form of mass transit.

My interests in history are quite broad and I will be writing on a number of topics, including: early confidential government agents, Cointelpro, the FBI's domestic spying operation in the 1960s, the Gulf of Tonkin Incident and how we became involved in a war in Vietnam on the basis of a confrontation that never occurred.

I am also an avid, if not spectacularly talented, distance and trail runner. I am currently discovering the joys of running in the geezer years. I will be writing some pieces on this subject.