About the Author

Philip A. Goduti, Jr., is an adjunct assistant professor of history at Quinnipiac University, in Hamden, Connecticut (and the recipient of a Quinnipiac University Outstanding Faculty Award in 2002). He is also a history teacher at Somers High School in Somers, Connecticut, and a former freelance reporter for the Providence Journal Bulletin and Hamden Chronicle. He lives in Cromwell, Connecticut.