An Album of Rhode Island History, 1636-1986

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. Dr. Conley, generally regarded as the foremost authority on Rhode Island's history, has taught and researched in this field for more than forty years. This book is the fruit and the distillation of that scholarly commitment.

The author's factual, comprehensive…