<figure><img src="https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/2416958/2147483647/strip/false/crop/1920x1080+0+0/resize/792x446!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Ff9%2F36%2F851b828943b0a5433c78fc29e355%2Fchaputerik.png"><figcaption></figcaption></figure>An event you've probably never heard of, the 1842 Rhode Island Rebellion, puts a lot of our current political discussions and conflicts in context. This week, Grant Reeher speaks with Erik Chaput, a teacher at <a href="https://www.groton.org/academics/curriculum-course-catalog/history-and-social-science" target="_blank">Groton School</a> in Massachusetts. He's written a book on the event titled <a href="https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700619245/" target="_blank">"The People's Martyr: Thomas Wilson Dorr and His 1842 Rhode Island Rebellion."</a>

An event you've probably never heard of, the 1842 Rhode Island Rebellion, puts a lot of our current political discussions and conflicts in context. This week, Grant Reeher speaks with Erik Chaput, a teacher at Groton School in Massachusetts. He's written a book on the event titled "The People's Martyr: Thomas Wilson Dorr and His 1842 Rhode Island Rebellion."

An event you've probably never heard of, the 1842 Rhode Island Rebellion, puts a lot of our current political discussions and conflicts in context. This week, Grant Reeher speaks with Erik Chaput, a teacher at <a href="https://www.groton.org/academics/curriculum-course-catalog/history-and-social-science" rel="noopener noreferrer">Groton School</a> in Massachusetts. He's written a book on the event titled <a href="https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700619245/" rel="noopener noreferrer">"The People's Martyr: Thomas Wilson Dorr and His 1842 Rhode Island Rebellion."</a>

Erik Chaput on the Campbell Conversations

Every week Grant Reeher, Political Science Professor and Senior Research Associate at the Campbell Public Affairs Institute at Syracuse University, leads a conversation with a notable guest. Guests include people from central New York -- writers, politicians, activists, public officials, and business professionals whose work affects the public life of the community -- as well as nationally prominent figures visiting the region to talk about their work.

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