Rockwell Stensrud is the author of Inventing Rhode Island: Six Lives (Parenthetical Press, 2014); Newport: A Lively Experiment, 1639-1969 (Redwood Library and Athenaeum, 2007); senior producer and writer for the ABC News series The History of the Eighties; producer and writer of James Cagney for A&E "Biography"; and cowriter of the television series American Women of Achievement.