Ongoing

Charting History: Navigating the Currents of Rhode Island’s Past

Aldrich House 110 Benevolent Street, Providence

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 tell the stories of RI and the people who have lived here throughout history up to the present-day. This exhibit is designed to introduce visitors […]

Gilded Age Newport in Color Exhibition

Rosecliff Mansion 548 Bellevue Avenue, Newport

"Gilded Age Newport in Color" at Rosecliff is taking visitors back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries when African heritage families were active members of a new type of urban setting – the resort community. The exhibition explores an important chapter in American history when African heritage families could unite and promote their […]

“Hope Deferred”: George T. Downing and the Nineteenth Century Civil Rights Movement

Newport Historical Society Resource Center 82 Touro Street, Newport

Thursday March 21, 2024 at 6:30pm; doors open at 5:30pm for a cocktail reception $20 per person, $15 for Newport Historical Society members and active duty military Newport Historical Society Resource Center, 82 Touro Street On Thursday March 21, 2024 at 6:30pm, Rhode Island historians Erik Chaput and Russell DeSimone will discuss the life and career […]