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

Revolutionary War-Era Newport, 1764-1781

The British-Hessian Occupation of Newport, 1776-1779

“The Hessians Are Coming”: The Hessians in the Occupation of Newport, 1776-1779

Life on Aquidneck Island during the British-Hessian Occupation, 1776-1779

The Revolutionary War Battle of Rhode Island, 1778

The Patriot Raid to Capture British General Richard Prescott, July 1777

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

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