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Book Review: Roger Williams and His World: A History in Documents, by Charlotte Carrington-Farmer (Broadview Press, 2025), 175p.
Roger Williams may be the most written-about person in 17th century New England, as pointed out in this anthology. Several books have addressed his remarkable career, including Edmund Morgan’s …
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Nathanael Greene and His Contradictory Roles as Revolutionary War Hero and Enslaver
Many Americans are aware of the Founding Fathers’ contradictory owning of enslaved individuals while fighting in word and deed for liberty from the “slavery” imposed upon them by Great Britain. …
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2 months ago
Gordon Wood, Long-time Brown History Professor and Preeminent Historian of the American Revolution Dies: A Recollection
On Sunday, June 7, at the Shaw’s supermarket parking lot on Taunton Avenue in East Providence, Professor Gordon Wood was struck by an automobile and seriously injured. He died at …
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Benoni Simmons: Long-Serving Hero of the American Revolution
The amazing story of Benoni Simmons’s military service in the American Revolution spans some fourteen years, perhaps the longest term of service by anyone in that conflict. More so, his …
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