Talks
Talks on the 250th of the American Revolution:
- "Paul Revere's Ride:" Longfellow's Mistakes
- The American Revolution Begins: Background and Lexington & Concord
- The American Revolution and the U.S. Army Begin
- The American Revolution: From Beginning to End (ready March 2026)
- The War for American Independence (ready March 2026)
- Rhode Island and the American Revolution (ready June 2026)
- Revolutionary War-Era Newport, 1764-1781
- The British-German Occupation of Aquidneck Island (1776-1779)
- Life on Aquidneck Island during the British-German Occupation, 1776-1779
- “The Hessians Are Coming”: The Hessians in the Occupation of Newport, 1776-1779
- The Patriot Raid to Capture British General Richard Prescott, July 1777
- The Rhode Island Campaign and the Battle of RI (1778)
- George Washington: “First in War, First in Peace, First in the Hearts of His Countrymen” (ready June 2026)
- Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration, and Liberty (ready June 2026)
- Nathanael Greene: Rhode Island Planter & Revolutionary War General (ready June 2026)
Other Talks:
Founders of Rhode Island (The Narragansett, Williams, Hutchinson, Coddington, Clarke)
Anne Hutchinson: Founding Mother of Religious Freedom in America
Roger Williams: Founding Father of Providence and of Religious Freedom in America
Slavery in the New World to 1775
Slavery in the United States, 1775-1850
Slavery in the United States, 1850-1877
Un-Freedom in the United States, 1877-1960s
Slavery in Colonial Rhode Island
Slavery in Colonial Newport
The History of Newport: From Its Founding thru the Gilded Age
The Civil War: Why the North Won and the South Lost
Lincoln as Commander in Chief
Rhode Island and the Civil War
Elisha Hunt Rhodes: Rhode Island Soldier of the Civil War
Julia Ward Howe: Beyond the Battle Hymn
Mother-Daughter Activists of the 19th & 20th Centuries: Julia Ward Howe & Maud Howe Elliott (with author Nancy Whipple Grinnell)
Frederick Douglass: Slave, Free Man, Great American
Notable Women of Rhode Island (select from: Hutchinson, Howe, Wormeley, Chace, Vanderbilt Belmont, Elliott, Jones, Red Wing)
The Queens of Newport's Gilded Age (Astor, Vanderbilt Belmont, Fish, Oelrichs)
Famous Woman Activists of Rhode Island of the 19th/20th Centuries: Howe, Elliott, and Vanderbilt Belmont
The Citizen and the Challenge of American Civilization
Fees
Fee: From $300 to $750 (depending on the event), plus travel expenses
Talks are generally 45-55 minutes long, followed by a 10-20 minute Q & A
Contact me at zilianf@aol.com; (C) 401.714.4667