Events

Keith Stokes, Rhode Island Historian Laureate How did the enslaved feel about the phrase “All Men Are Created Equal”? Come join Rhode Island’s Historian Laureate for a talk about the African American response to the onset of the Revolution, the oral history, and the cultures that kept this “unwritten” history alive, despite the upheavals and […]

Matt Carcieri East Greenwich Historian gives a talk on East Greenwich’s response to the American Revolution. Through a focus specifically on the events of 1775 in to 1776, the talk will reveal the daily experiences of the residents of East Greenwich and the Revolutionary Rhode Island in the early years of the conflict.

Historian George Goodwin draws from his recent book, Propaganda Wars of the American Revolution, to show how the American Revolution was not only fought on bloody battlefields, but how it was also waged with the ink of pen and print. Throughout the war, George Washington and other leaders of the Continental Army brilliantly weaponized information […]

A Tribute to the 1st Rhode Island Regiment September 19 @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm FREE ADMISSION · SUGGESTED DONATION LIVING HISTORY Valerie Tutson Rhode Island Black Storytellers Tutson will perform a presentation portraying the wife of Caesar Updike, and tell their lives of upheaval and uncertainty during the war and on his return […]

Acclaimed historian John Rhodenhamel explores the character, ideals and moral discipline of Gen. George Washington by tracing the profound transformation of a young and ambitious officer—often driven by personal advancement—into the mature and disciplined commander who led the Continental Army through the American Revolution and ultimately relinquish power to establish the world’s first modern republic. […]

Michael J. Simpson, a professor of history at Johnson & Wales University, a public historian, and trustee of the Cocumscussoc Association will present a lecture on a soldier in the First Rhode Island Regiment named Fortune Stoddard. Born enslaved in Middletown, he was tried in Maryland during the American Revolution.

Discover the American Revolution as it unfolded in Middletown on Thursday, September 24th at 5:30 PM at the Middletown Public Library. Did you know that both the British and French armies came ashore in Middletown? Or that local residents ran a spy network to convey valuable intelligence to the Patriots, and produced ammunition to support […]