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About Erik Chaput & Russell J. DeSimone

Erik Chaput & Russell J. DeSimone

Historians Erik J. Chaput and Russell J. DeSimone, both frequent contributors to The Online Review of Rhode Island History (at smallstatebighistory.com), are the co-creators of the award-winning Dorr Rebellion Project website hosted by Providence College. Their edition of Thomas Wilson Dorr’s writings will be published next year by the Rhode Island Publications Society (foreword to the book penned by historian Sean Wilentz). Also, in 2025 a new update to the site will bring the story of Newport County in 1842 to light for students and teachers.
Latest Posts | By Erik Chaput & Russell J. DeSimone
A Rhode Islander in the Freedmen’s Bureau
10 years ago

A Rhode Islander in the Freedmen’s Bureau

By  •  Civil War

In the final days of the Civil War, the U.S. Congress established an agency within the War Department that was to have far reaching powers in terms of setting social …
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Sidney Rider and The Business of Rhode Island History
11 years ago

Sidney Rider and The Business of Rhode Island History

By  •  Biography

More than any other Rhode Islander of his generation, Sidney S. Rider was in the business of history. Rider was the premier bookseller in Rhode Island in the later part …
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Providence’s Merchants Influence the State to Ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1790
11 years ago

Providence’s Merchants Influence the State to Ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1790

By  •  Rhode Island - General

There is perhaps no better known expression from the American Revolutionary period than “no taxation without representation.” In July 1768, Silas Downer, a member of the Providence Sons of Liberty, …
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