“A Matter of Truth” Dives Into Rhode Island’s History of Discrimination The new State House exhibit presented by the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society explores the lives of African heritage residents from the 1600s to the present. While the Rhode Island State House has always been a destination for teachers and students eager to learn […]

Charting History is a traveling panel exhibition that tells one cohesive, chronological, and thematic narrative of Rhode Island's history. It follows the major threads of commerce, conflict, and conscience to […]

The Stamp Act riots in Rhode Island and the Regulator Rebellion in North Carolina, although movements in smaller colonies, tell a broader story about the evolution of American political thought in the decades surrounding the American Revolution. Without pre-existing local tensions, the fury of the Stamp Act crisis might not have spilled over during the […]