Patrick T Conley: 4 books
by Patrick T. Conley
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Picking up where Rhode Island's Founders left off Dr. Patrick T. Conley, Rhode Island's preeminent historian and president of the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame, takes us through the Ocean State's history from 1790 to 1860. Learn how Samuel Slater, the so-called Father of the Factor System, pioneered...
Rhode Island's Founders
From Settlement to Statehood
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Dr. Patrick T. Conley, Rhode Island's preeminent historian, journeys with us to early America, where Rhode Island's founders laid the groundwork for America's policy of religious freedom. Learn what led Roger Williams to write The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution and discover how James Franklin, older brother...
Aboard the Fabre Line to Providence
Immigration to Rhode Island
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
In an era when immigration was at its peak, the Fabre Line offered the only transatlantic route to southern New England. One of its most important ports was in Providence, Rhode Island. Nearly eighty-four thousand immigrants were admitted to the country between the years 1911 and 1934. Almost one in...
by Christian McBurney, Brian L. Wallin, Patrick T. Conley
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Rhode Island's contribution to World War II vastly exceeded its small size. Narragansett Bay was an armed camp dotted by army forts and navy facilities. They included the country's most important torpedo production and testing facilities at Newport and the Northeast's largest naval air station at...