Selected Titles
Rhode Island in Rhetoric and Reflection: Public Addresses and Essays by Patrick T. Conley
“These are wonderful essays on the history of Rhode Island by the premier historian of Rhode Island. With wit, clarity, and an extraordinary command of historical information, Patrick T. Conley has covered all aspects of Rhode Island history from its earliest origins in the seventeenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century. There are essays on Rhode Island constitutionalism (Conley’s specialty), on immigration and ethnicity, on Rhode Island sports, on Catholicism, and on a wide variety of the Ocean State’s local scenes and colorful characters. . . . Read more »
An Album of Rhode Island History,
1636–1986 • Patrick T. Conley
This volume — containing a crisply-written narrative of over 100,000 words and more than 400 representative illustrations — is the contribution of Dr. Patrick T. Conley and WLNE-TV6 to Rhode Island’s 350th anniversary observance. The author’s factual, comprehensive treatment, coupled with informational graphics and useful appendices, even make this book suitable for use in basic courses on Rhode Island history. Yet, Conley has written not for scholars but for the general reader desirous of knowing more about the heritage of the Ocean State. . . . Read more »
Liberty and Justice: A History of Law and Lawyers in Rhode Island, 1636–1998 • Patrick T. Conley
The foremost authority on Rhode Island’s history has written a volume that lawyers and history buffs will cherish — the trials and banishment of Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson for their religious views, the condemnation of four whites for the murder of an Indian, the execution of 26 pirates on Goat Island, the investigation into the burning of the Gaspee, the rejection of the federal Constitution, divorce in the late 18th century, the Dorr War, the Gordon murder trial, the Industrial Revolution’s impact on the development of the law of negligence, the Bloodless Revolution, the Race Track War, the Long Count of 1956 — it’s all here, in 526 pages with 207 captioned illustrations in a limited edition of 1,500 copies. . . . Read more »
Firefighters and Fires in Providence: A Pictorial History of the Providence Fire Department 1754–2001 • Patrick T. Conley and Paul R. Campbell
This book, one of the few of its kind, traces the history of firefighting in a major American city from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. In 50,000 words and 200 carefully selected photos authors Patrick T. Conley and Paul R. Campbell trace the history of the Providence Fire Department for twenty-three decades. Here is a book for firefighters, fire buffs, urban historians, and all those general readers who like a colorful, nostalgic tale well told. In this work the proud heritage of the Providence Fire Department will be preserved forever. . . . Read more »
Catholicism in Rhode Island: The Formative Era • Patrick T. Conley and Matthew J. Smith
This volume — a contribution by the diocese to the state’s bicentennial observance — attempts to relate the history of Rhode Island Catholicism from its colonial origins down to the formal establishment of the Diocese of Providence in 1872. This is meant to be a ‘popular’ history designed for the general reader who wishes to know more of our state’s early Catholic heritage, but it is our hope that the book can be adapted for use in our schools. . . . Read more »