Erik Chaput, an occasional contributor to The Journal, teaches at the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey. Russell DeSimone is an independent historian in Middletown. They helped to develop a website ...

Howard Zinn's history of a movement in the United States against a political system which permitted the vote only to landowners. Drafting their own “People’s Convention” the rebels were let down by ...

One hundred seventy-five years ago this Sunday, from the village of Chepachet in the northern Rhode Island town of Glocester, the embattled People’s governor, Thomas Wilson Dorr, issued a bold ...

The Dorr RebellionNear Westminster St. and Cranston St., Providence (click for map) The workers, over 200 of them, took up arms and marched through Providence on a foggy night in 1842 to strike a blow ...

"In 1840s Rhode Island, the state's seventeenth-century colonial charter remained in force and restricted suffrage to property owners, effectively disenfranchising 60 percent of potential voters.