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About Erik J. Chaput

Erik J. Chaput teaches American history at both Western Reserve Academy in Ohio and at 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 and are the editors of the Letters of Thomas Wilson Dorr and the Letters of John Brown Francis. Both collections can be accessed online on the Dorr Rebellion Project Site, http://library.providence.edu/dps/projects/dorr/index.html. Chaput is the author of The People’s Martyr: Thomas Wilson Dorr and His 1842 Rhode Island Rebellion (University Press of Kansas, 2013).
Latest Posts | By Erik J. Chaput
Teaching the Story of “Universal Liberty” in Revolutionary Rhode Island: A Review of Edward J. Larson’s American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of the Nation, 1765-1795
1 year ago

Teaching the Story of “Universal Liberty” in Revolutionary Rhode Island: A Review of Edward J. Larson’s American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of the Nation, 1765-1795

We live in a day wherein Liberty & freedom is the subject of many millions’ Concern; and the important Struggle hath already caused great Effusion of Blood; men seem …
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Brotherly Love: Thomas and Allen Dorr at Phillips Exeter Academy
9 years ago

Brotherly Love: Thomas and Allen Dorr at Phillips Exeter Academy

In 1824, several months after he graduated from Harvard College, Thomas Wilson Dorr (1805-1854), the son of a prominent Providence, Rhode Island merchant, entered into a philosophical debate with his …
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