About Erik J. Chaput

Erik J. Chaput teaches American history in the School of Continuing Education at Providence College and at The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey. 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).