Since 1990, Lawrence B. Goodheart has taught U.S. history, African American history, and the Civil War at the Greater Hartford Campus. During 1992-1993, he was director of the Connecticut Academy of English, Geography, and History, a teachers' institute at the University. In 1994-1995, he taught at Bilkent University in Ankara and lectured throughout Turkey. With sponsorship of the U.S. Department of State, he spoke in 2000 at Bilkent and Ege Universities in Turkey. The U.S. Department of Education, Connecticut Humanities Council, and Hartford Consortium for Higher Education have awarded him grants. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of the Early Republic, Connecticut History, and Journal of American Studies of Turkey. He is a member of the State Historical Preservation Board.
Asher, Goodheart, & Rogers, eds., Murder on Trial, 1620-2000 (2005)
Mad Yankees: The Hartford Retreat for the Insane and Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003)
"The Distinction between Witchcraft and Madness in Colonial Connecticut," History of Psychiatry, 13 (2002), 433-444
" Remembering the Amistad,” Connecticut History, 40 (2001), 139-147
Goodheart and Allen, “Bulworth: The Hip-Hop Nation Confronts Corporate Capitalism,” Journal of American Studies of Turkey, 8 (1998), 73-80
Goodheart and Hawkins, eds., The Abolitionists: Means, Ends, Motivations, 3d ed. (1995)
“The Concept of Insanity,” Connecticut History, 36 (1995), 31-47
“The Ambivalent Antisemitism of Malcolm X,” Patterns of Prejudice, 28 (1994), 3-25
Goodheart, Brown, Rabe, eds., Slavery in American Society, 3d ed. (1993)
Curry and Goodheart, eds., American Chameleon: Individualism in Transnational Context, (1991)
“The Ambiguity of Individualism,” ibid., 133-150
Abolitionist, Actuary, Atheist: Elizur Wright and the Reform Imperative (1990)
“The Odyssey of Malcolm X,” The Historian, 53 (1990), 47-62
