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A Capital City for Exiles

In a sense, this capital city is a place established for exiles.  If your thoughts and ideas were too radical for the establishment, peoples from…

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Too Radical for the Time & Place

Roger Williams’ ideas were simply too radical for his time and place, and for that, he was about to be sent back to England.  That…

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The Smallest of the Fifty States

This week we are in the smallest of the fifty states, Rhode Island, for the story of the man who helped found the colony –…

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Capturing Someone’s Voice

In an age centuries before a recorder could capture someone’s voice, young Roger could accomplish the same thing by hand.  However, you know him not…

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The Voice That Inspired the Declaration of Independence

Over a century before the founding fathers would write the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, this man was expounding on the ideas those documents…

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