Harmond began teaching at St. John's University in Jamaica, Queens, New York, in 1957 as an Instructor, and remained there until his retirement in 2003, when he was granted Professor Emeritus status.
[4] Many of Harmond’s early articles were extensions of his doctoral research, such as “The Time They Tried to Divide Beverly,” published in the Essex Institute Historical Collections (1968), and “Troubles of Massachusetts Republicans during the 1880s,” in Mid-America (1974).
However, his interests also began to spread into social history, as evidenced by the subject of his most widely cited article, “Progress and Flight: An Interpretation of the American Cycle Craze of the 1890s,” published in the Journal of Social History,[5] as well as “Playing and Watching in the Gilded Age: The Beginnings of the Modern Era of Sports in America,” a chapter he contributed to Cities in Transition: From the Ancient World to Urban America, edited by his St. John’s colleague Frank J. Coppa and former colleague Philip C. Dolce (1974).
He also co-edited 4 books: Long Island as America: A Documentary History to 1896, with James E. Bunce (Kennikat Press, 1977); Technology in the Twentieth Century, with Frank J. Coppa (Kendall/Hunt, 1983); Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists, with Keir B.
It enables the reader to check details rapidly and identify unfamiliar names quickly, and it will even provide an occasional research lead.
"[10] In the Journal of American Culture, reviewer Ray Browne, however, calls that book "a fine outline" and "well worth scanning.