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John L. Larson

Professor, Assistant Department Head & Director of Graduate Education, Department of History Office Hours: Fall Semester: Tues/Wed/Thurs 1:00-2:30
Office: UNIV 225
Office Phone: (765) 494-4127
Office Fax: (765) 496-1755
Email: larsonjl@purdue.edu

Specialization: U.S. History.  U.S. Political and Early National.  U.S. Business.

Professor Larson is an Iowan by birth and may one day become a Hoosier when his thirty-year sentence is up.  He studied history at Luther College and Brown University.  Before coming to Purdue in 1983 he served as Director of Research at Conner Prairie Pioneer Settlement and taught at Earlham College.  Since 1994 he has been coeditor, with Michael A. Morrison, of the Journal of the Early Republic.  His publications include Bonds of Enterprise: John Murray Forbes and Western Development in America's  Railway Age (1984) and Internal Improvement: National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States (2001).

List of Publications