The Larchmont Disaster, by Joseph and Janice Soares (Charleston, SC: History Press, 2014, $19.99)
It has been called the Titanic of Rhode Island, a little remembered disaster that claimed …
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11 years ago
Rhode Island history books have surrounded me for as long as I can remember. Growing up in Warwick, I remember reading battered copies of such classics as Trumpets in Jericho, …
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11 years ago
The People’s Martyr, by Erik J. Chaput (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2013)
“The Rhode Island Question,” otherwise known as the Dorr Rebellion of 1842, is one of the …
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