Description
Imagine being able to hear directly from the men and women who lived through the Revolution. Remembering the Revolution: Little Compton, Rhode Island lets you do that. Listen in on town meetings where discussions let you “know the town’s mind.” Read newspaper reports on spinning matches and tea boycotts. Follow the war through the details of daily life in the army, on board ships, and on the homefront through the detailed, moving letters veterans and their widows wrote as part of their applications for pensions. There were no battles in Little Compton, but the British occupation of Newport meant that no one in town was unaffected by the war.
Steven Lubar is the President of the Little Compton Historical Society and George L. Littlefield Professor of American History emeritus at Brown University. A former curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, he is the author of many books and articles on American history.