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Robert A. Geake

Posts by Robert A. Geake

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Witness to a Fragile Freedom: Resurrecting the Life of Silas Royal

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Robert A. Geake • October 6, 2025

“One Thing We Know, Our Cause is Just”: Rhode Island Readies for Revolution 1774-1775

Cocumscussoc Review
Robert A. Geake • April 14, 2025

Plasters, Purges, and Potions: Eighteenth Century Medicine in the Colonies through the Revolutionary War

Cocumscussoc Review
Robert A. Geake • March 13, 2025

A Black Activist from North Kingstown: The Extraordinary Life of Christiana Bannister

Cocumscussoc Review
Robert A. Geake • February 13, 2025

A Lonely Country: The Trials of Esther Smith

Cocumscussoc Review
Robert A. Geake • December 5, 2024

Colonial Newspapers as the Social Media of their Day

Cocumscussoc Review
Robert A. Geake • October 16, 2024

Another “Black Regiment” in the Revolutionary War

Cocumscussoc Review
Robert A. Geake • August 14, 2024

The Billingtons: One Colonial Family’s Struggle to Take Root in Southern New England

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Robert A. Geake • July 30, 2024

“The Greatest Mischief…that would Befall My Country”: Washington Refuses To Be King

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Robert A. Geake • July 9, 2024
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