Every third Thursday of the month, the Newport Historical Society keeps the doors of the Richard I. Burnham Resource Center open later than usual, from 4-7PM. Guests are welcome to […]
The Newport Show - a veritable menagerie of fine arts, antiquities, furniture, jewelry, and other curiosities - will return to St. George's School Ice Rink on July 26th and 27th, […]
On Saturday, July 26, 2025, the John Brown House Museum will host Rebecca Donahue for the living history program Living the Dream: Everyday Life in Sylvia DeWolf Ostrander’s New England. What was […]
Join the Nathanael Greene Homestead Association, Sunday July 27th a from 10:00 to 5:00 as we celebrate Gen. Greene’s 283rd Birthday -10:00 am Ceremony, with featured speaker Michelle Girasole, of […]
Join the Rhode Island Historical Society on Monday, August 4th at 6pm for From Bullrakes to Clambakes, featuring Dune Brothers and a presentation by former state folklorist Dr. Michael Bell. Guests […]
Eighteenth-century newspapers and pamphlets were essential to the dissemination of information and were instrumental in fanning the flames of discord on both sides of the Revolutionary conflict. However, how did […]
Join the Rhode Island Historical Society for a walking tour of Providence, examining the roots of the American Revolution in Rhode Island with guide Scott Alexander. From the Gaspee Affair […]
In 1842, nearly two decades before the Civil War, Black Rhode Islanders saw success in a hostile, arduous, and nearly unfordable cultural and political landscape: they secured the right to […]
On September 23rd, at the John Nicholas Brown Center, from 2:00 - 3:00, acclaimed poet Kwame Dawes will be reading from his volume, Sturge Town, a collection of poems which […]
This event will take place over two days and consist of several panels where scholars from literary and cultural studies will present papers that take up a number of writers, […]
