All Episodes
S2E6 - The French & American Alliance in Rhode Island
1778 | As the Americans prepare to retake the city of Newport with their French ally, they watch as a series of unexpected changes throw their plan into disarray.My Fa...
S2E7 - The Battle of Rhode Island
1778 | With the French Navy no longer able to support the retaking of Newport, the American army on Aquidneck Island must hold their ground so that they can safely ret...
S2E8 - Nathanael Greene Saves the Revolution
1780 - 1781 | With the American's southern army on the verge of being defeated, an event that would likely lead to the patriot forces losing the Revolutionary War, Geo...
S2E9 - Outcasts Once Again
1781 - 1790 | With the Revolutionary War having come to an end, Rhode Island struggles to see eye to eye with their fellow Americans around what their new national gov...
BONUS: Slavery in Rhode Island Part 1
1638 - 1775 | From almost the moment Rhode Island was founded, indigenous war captives worked for the colony's earliest settlers without pay. Then, in the 18th centur...
BONUS: Slavery in Rhode Island Part 2
1784 - 1860 | With early abolitionists attempting to end Rhode Island's connection with slavery, the state's merchants and industrial leaders continue to find ways to ...
BONUS: Rhode Island Pirates
1683 - 1723 | Throughout the late 17th and early 18th century, Rhode Island pirates contributed heavily to the Golden Age of Piracy and became such a nuisance that the...
Season 3 Trailer
Prepare to embark on an exhilarating new season as we delve into the transformative power of industrialization in Rhode Island! Uncover the social and economic changes...
S3E1 - The Dawn of A New Era
1789 - 1790 | Only a year after arriving in Rhode Island, Samuel Slater builds the revolutionary machines that will ignite the American Industrial Revolution.My Favori...
S3E2 - Slater Mill and Slatersville
1796 - 1807 | Samuel Slater creates America's first water-powered cotton spinning mill and America's first factory town, giving Rhode Island the foundations it needs t...
S3E3 - "Cotton Mill Fever"
1808 - 1824 | With the Jefferson Embargo and the War of 1812 causing a significant decline in maritime trade, Rhode Island businessmen look to textile manufacturing as...
S3E4 - "Peaceably if we can, Forcibly if we must"
1832 - 1841 | After a decade of attempting to modernize the state's archaic political institutions, the people of Rhode Island come to the conclusion that the only way...
S3E5 - The Dorr Rebellion
1841 - 1845 | Thomas Wilson Dorr leads a political upheaval aimed at modernizing the state's archaic and extremely undemocratic government.My Favorite Books on this To...
S3E6 - The Execution of John Gordon
1843 - 1845 | Following the murder of wealthy industrialist Amasa Sprague, Irish immigrant John Gordon is unjustly executed for the crime.My Favorite Books on this Top...
S3E7 - Off to War
1859 - 1861 | Rhode Island's political and military leaders respond as America is thrust into Civil War.My Favorite Books on this Topic:History of the Rhode Island com...
S3E8 - Civil War
1861 - 1863 | Ambrose Burnside, a Union General from Bristol, Rhode Island, personally experiences the highs and lows of war while fighting Confederate forces in the A...
S3E9 - Peace
1863 - 1865 | Following a heroic performance by Battery B, First Rhode Island Light Artillery Regiment, at the Battle of Gettysburg, the Union goes on to win the Ameri...
UPDATE - Big Change Coming October 5th
On October 5th, The Story of Rhode Island Podcast will become The Story of Rhode Island YouTube Channel. With this change, I’ll be able to add visuals like photograph...