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Dorr Rebellion Project Selected Bibliography \u2192<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

An annotated and traditional bibliography of research materials utilized by Dr. Erik J. Chaput and Rhode Island scholar Russell J. DeSimone in creating the script for The Dorr Rebellion short-form documentary and other resources on the Dorr Rebellion Project website. For those resources which are open access, an access link has been provided within the document.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Pamphlets: Contemporary Assessments of the Dorr Rebellion \u2192<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Learn more about what contemporaries of the Dorr Rebellion thought about the conflict by exploring these pamphlets written during or shortly after the rebellion took place.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Rhode Island – Interference of the executive in the affairs of June 7, 1844 \u2192<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

by United States Congress. House. Select Committee on Rhode Island; Burke, Edmond, 1809-1882.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Rhode Island in 1842. Minority report of Committee of Congress appointed to inquire into the interference of the President in the affairs of Rhode Island in 1842 \u2192<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

by United States Congress. House. Select Committee on Rhode Island; Causin, John, M. S, d. 1861.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Carpet Bag Correspondence \u2192<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Newspaper clippings that document four letters claiming to be found in a confiscated carpet bag belonging to Thomas Wilson Dorr. Two of the letters were written by Dutee J. Pearce of Newport and the other two were written by Dr. J.A. Brown and Louis Lapham. All of these letters were addressed to Dorr.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Henry J. Duff – Unheralded Reformer\u00a0\u2192<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After the Dorr Rebellion, Henry J. Duff, a naturalized citizen from Ireland, fought for a period of five years to have the state constitution amended to remove the freehold requirement for naturalized citizens. Due to nativistic and anti-Catholic sentiments his efforts to amend the constitution failed. It would not be until 1888 when the freehold requirement was removed for naturalized citizens.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Other Dorr Scholarship \u2192<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

View a larger collection of scholarship related to the Dorr Rebellion.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Newspaper Reminiscences of the Dorr Rebellion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The following links will take students and researchers to newspaper accounts and reminiscences of the Dorr Rebellion. Unlike contemporary pamphlets, scholarly monographs and other articles listed in the bibliography, these newspaper accounts are less readily accessible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other than one article published in two parts by staunch Dorrite, William Balch, all accounts were authored by men who were either members of the Law & Order Party at the time of the rebellion or, at the very least, non-Dorrites. Though the authors’ rationale for writing these late-19th century accounts are not completely known, it is clear that the authors wanted to commit to paper their take on the rebellion for posterity and to explain their actions in the spring of 1842. Only Balch\u2019s account was intended to rebut the narrative of another writer. Whatever the reason for writing these accounts it must be kept in mind that they were written thirty or more years after the rebellion and, as such, their accounts are subject to facts clouded by the passage of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These accounts are presented in chronological order:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Henry B. Anthony contributed an article titled \u201cThe Dorr War in Rhode Island<\/a>\u201d to the New York Ledger<\/i> on August 6, 1870 as part of a series of twelve article by distinguished senators of the United States.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Zachariah Allen was an uncle of Thomas W. Dorr; his account, \u201cThe Dorr War<\/a>\u201d was published in the Providence Press<\/i> on May 7, 1881 (page 6).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. A series of five articles titled \u201cReminiscences of the Dorr War\u201d appeared in the Manufacturers and Farmers Journal<\/i> in January 1885. These articles are signed \u201cH\u201d and ascribed to Edward H. Hazard. (January 15 – page 1<\/a>, January 19 – page 2<\/a>, January 22 – pages 2 & 8<\/a>, January 26 – page 8<\/a>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Arnold Greene presented his \u201cConstitutional History of Rhode Island\u201d as a series of three public lectures, the accounts of which appeared in three newspaper issues, of which only the first and last have been located (March 12, 1885 \u2013 page 2<\/a> and March 19, 1885 \u2013 page 2<\/a>) of the Manufacturers and Farmers Journal<\/i>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. William S. Balch, a staunch Dorrite, in response to Edward H. Hazard\u2019s articles \u201cReminiscences of the Dorr War\u201d published in the Providence Daily Journal<\/i> in January 1885 sent a lengthy article in two parts (March 16, 1885 \u2013 page 9<\/a> and March 30, 1885 \u2013 page 9<\/a>) to the Manufacturers and Farmers Journal<\/i>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Abraham Payne\u2019s series \u201cSome Other Reminiscences\u201d appeared in a series of nine articles in the Manufacturers and Farmers Journal<\/i> in the fall of 1885. (October 8 – page 2<\/a>, October 15 – page 2<\/a>, October 22 – page 2<\/a>, October 29 – page 2<\/a>, November 5 – page 2<\/a>, November 19 – page 2<\/a>, November 26 – page 2<\/a>, December 3 – page 2<\/a> and December 10 – page 2<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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