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...