Erik J. Chaput teaches American history at both the Groton School in Massachusetts and the School of Continuing Education at Providence College. Chaput, and his collaborator, Russell J. DeSimone, are the historians-in-residence on the Dorr Rebellion Project Site sponsored by Providence College. They have edited five letter collections for the website. Chaput is the author of The People’s Martyr: Thomas Wilson Dorr and His 1842 Rhode Island Rebellion (University Press of Kansas, 2013; paperback 2025). With DeSimone he has edited The Selected Writings of Thomas Wilson Dorr (Rhode Island Publications Society, 2025).
