This year’s First Readings book is Sons of Providence by Charles Rappleye. Here are a few things of note about Sons of Providence and the First Readings program.

• The First Readings program provides first-year and transfer students with a common reading experience that introduces them to the pleasures and rigors of academic life at Brown University.
• This is the program’s sixth year.
• First Readings is sponsored by the Dean of the College and Brown Alumni Association.
• The library has created a website to introduce new students to the resources available to them at the library.
• Sons of Providence, is the biography of John and Moses Brown, two brothers caught at opposite ends of the slavery issue in the early beginnings of colonial America.
• There will be frequent updates to the @firstreadings twitter feed.
• In mid-October, Charles Rappleye, author of Sons of Providence, will visit campus and speak to the first-year students.

For more information about the author, the brown family, early maps of Providence, or timelines visit the website.