Professor Lawrence B. Goodheart of the University of Connecticut has assumed the position of acting state historian while state historian Walter Woodward is on s
abbatical through early August of 2011.
Since 1990, Lawrence B. Goodheart has taught U.S. history, African American history, and the Civil War at the University's Greater Hartford Campus. A former social studies teacher in the Rochester, N. Y. schools, he has a strong commitment to excellence in public education. More