JON E. PURMONT History

BOOKS PUBLISHED:

With Lewis House and Ira Leonard. A Concise History of the United States.

PAPER PUBLISHED IN PROCEEDING:

"Ella Grasso: Remarkable Child of 20th Century Pilgrims." Proceedings of the
American-Italian Historical Association, Fall 1993.

JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:

"Ella Grasso As She Saw Herself." Connecticut Review (Spring 1995).

"Sargent Comes to New Haven." Journal of The New Haven Colony Historical
Society (Spring 1976).

"Environmental History: A New Challenge for the Social Studies." Social Studies
(January-February 1976).

BOOK REVIEWS:

Education's Great Amnesia: Reconsidering the Humanities from Petrarch to Freud,
by Robert Proctor, in History Teacher (February 1993).

The Opening of American Education, by Ruskin Teeter, in History Teacher (November
1985).

Democracy and Union: The United States, 1815-1877, by Frank O. Gattell and Paul
Goodman, in History Teacher (August 1973).

CONFERENCE PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED:

"Students Protests in the 18th Century: Yale College as a Case Study, 1740-1766."
National Conference on Campus Violence, Towson State University, 1989.

"Ours is the Obligation: Ella Grasso and Women in Politics." Association for the Study of
Connecticut History Conference, Fall 1993.

"Ella Grasso As She Saw Herself." New England Historical Association Conference,
Spring 1995.

RECENT GRANTS RECEIVED:

CSU Faculty Research Grant, Spring 1995

RESEARCH INTERESTS IN GENERAL:

Connecticut History; Educational History

CURRENT/FUTURE SPECIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS:

Ella Grasso--research for a biography on "Connecticut's woman governor"

DISSERTATION TITLE:

Students' Protests in Connecticut Colleges and Universities, 1701-1870: Yale
College as a Case Study

INSTITUTION GRANTING ED.D.:

Teachers College, Columbia University