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<\/figure>Erik J. Chaput<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Erik J. Chaput, Ph.D., teaches history in the School of Continuing Education at Providence College and at the Groton School in Massachusetts. He is the author of\u00a0The People\u2019s Martyr: Thomas Wilson Dorr and His 1842 Rhode Island Rebellion<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(University Press of Kansas, 2013; paperback 2025). He is a contributor to\u00a0Small State Big History<\/a>\u00a0and has written for numerous academic journals, including\u00a0Rhode Island History<\/a>,\u00a0Newport History<\/a>, The New England Quarterly<\/a>, and\u00a0Commonplace<\/a>.\u00a0With Russ DeSimone he is the editor of The Selected Writings of Thomas Wilson Dorr<\/a><\/em> (Rhode Island Publications Society, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Contact: <\/strong>echaput@providence.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Russell J. DeSimone is an independent scholar. He is the compiler of Broadsides of the Dorr Rebellion <\/em>(1992), and author of The Dorr Rebellion Chronicled in Ballads and Poetry<\/em> (1993), A Survey of Nineteenth Century Rhode Island Billheads<\/em> (2002), Rhode Island Election Tickets: a Survey <\/em>(2007), Rhode Island\u2019s Rebellion<\/em> (2009) and Remarkable Women of Rhode Island<\/em> (2014). As a native Rhode Islander he has been a lifelong student of its history having written numerous articles about it. Now retired from both the defense industry and as an adjunct professor at the University of Rhode Island library where he curated numerous exhibitions drawn mainly from his collecting interest including \u201cA Survey of 19th<\/sup> Century Rhode Island Billheads\u201d, \u201cRhode Island Lotteries \u2013 Three Centuries of History\u201d, \u201cVoting and the Spirit of Democracy\u201d, \u201cPicturesque Rhode Island\u201d and in 2005 \u201cThomas Wilson Dorr \u2013 A Bicentennial Birthday Tribute\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Contact: <\/strong>russbook1@cox.net<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n The Dorr Rebellion project is the resulting collaboration of the Phillips Memorial Library (Providence College)<\/a>, Dr. Erik Chaput<\/a> and Mr. Russell DeSimone<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n John Hay Library, Brown University<\/a> The Thomas Wilson Dorr Web site was developed for non-commercial educational and scholarly uses only. All uses of Web site content should provide proper site attribution. Use or display of Web site materials for purposes other than education or scholarship should be requested through dps@providence.edu<\/a>. This Web site includes some materials for which Providence College does not have authority to grant permissions or which are not in the public domain. Digital Projects & Metadata<\/a> (dps@providence.edu<\/a>) will facilitate requests for use of these materials by providing 3rd party contact information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Project History The Dorr Rebellion project was conceived by Dr. Erik Chaput and Christiane Marie Landry in April of 2010. The project site was launched in September of 2011 with an aim to develop an authoritative online educational resource on the Dorr Rebellion and to engage in new forms of discourse. The site currently includes … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/dorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/dorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/dorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/dorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/dorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/dorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/dorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/dorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/dorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/dorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Headshot](\"https:\/\/pc-library-wordpress-projects.us.reclaim.cloud\/dorr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/Photo-Russ-DeSimone.jpg\")
<\/figure>Russell J. DeSimone<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Finding Aid to the Thomas Wilson Dorr Papers, Brown Archival & Manuscript Collections<\/a>
Rhode Island Historical Society<\/a>
Rhode Island School of Design Museum<\/a>
Rhode Island Foundation<\/a>
Rhode Island Humanities<\/a>
Newport Historical Society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nTerms of Use<\/h2>\n\n\n\n