Agonito, Joseph

Personal

Married Rosemary Giambattista (an author and educator), July 1, 1961; children: Giancarlo, Mae Lee. Education: Attended Niagara University; earned Ph.D.

Addresses

Home—NY. E-mail—[email protected].

Career

Historian, educator, and author. Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, NY, professor, now emeritus, of American history.

Awards, Honors

James L. Sellers Memorial Award, Nebraska State Historical Society, 1999, for article published in Nebraska History; (with Rosemary Agonito) Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Western Novel, 2006, for Buffalo Calf Road Woman.

Writings

The Building of an American Catholic Church: The Episcopacy of John Carroll, Garland (New York, NY), 1988.

(With wife, Rosemary Agonito) Buffalo Calf Road Woman: The Story of a Warrior of the Little Bighorn, Globe Pequot Press (Guilford, CT), 2005.

Contributor of articles to periodicals, including Nebraska History, True West, Frontiers, and Journal of the Order of Indian Wars.

Sidelights

For Sidelights, see entry on Rosemary Agonito.

Biographical and Critical Sources

PERIODICALS

Journal of the West, summer, 2006, Larry Toll, review of Buffalo Calf Road Woman: The Story of a Warrior of the Little Bighorn, p. 109.

Kliatt, January, 2006, Edna Boardman, review of Buffalo Calf Road Woman, p. 14.

Post Standard (Syracuse, NY), September 17, 2006, Laura T. Ryan, "Agonitos Lead Discussion of Their ‘Buffalo’ Book," p. 6.

Reference and Research Book News, May, 2006, review of Buffalo Calf Road Woman.

ONLINE

Rosemary and Joseph Agonito Home Page,http://www.agonito.com (March 15, 2007).