30 - General Nathanael Greene & RI's Revolutionary History

Host Lauren chats with Dave Procaccini, President of the Gen. Nathanael Greene Homestead Association and Lauren Fogarty, Program Coordinator for the Rhode Island Semiquincentennial 250th Commission (RI250). They talk about Major General Nathanael Greene, Rhode Island’s role in the American Revolution, and what Rhode Islanders can expect as the state ramps up to celebrate America’s 250th birthday. In the Last Chapter they discuss their favorite books, films, and TV series’ about the American Revolution.

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Books

The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson

Foxfire ed. by Eliot Wigginton

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Nathanael Greene: A Biography of the American Revolution by Gerald M. Carbone

Washington: Lessons in Leadership by Gerald M. Carbone

Brown & Sharpe and the Measure of American Industry: Making the Precision Machine Tools That Enabled Manufacturing, 1833-2001 by Gerald M. Carbone

From Slaves to Soldiers: The 1st Rhode Island Regiment in the American Revolution by Robert Geake

The Season: A Social History of the Debutante by Kristen Richardson

Media

Andor (TV series, 2022-2025)

Handmaid’s Tale (TV series, 2017-2025)

TURN: Washington’s Spies (TV series, 2014-2017)

Liberty’s Kids (TV series, 2002-2003)

1776 (film, 1972)

Revolution (film, 1985)