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, […]
Frances Perkins was the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet, the longest-serving Labor Secretary, and an architect of the New Deal. Yet beyond these celebrated accomplishments there is […]
Discover the unsung and underwritten heroes of the American Revolution at this day-long learning event in East Greenwich, RI, on Saturday, June 28. African Americans, Indigenous people, women, and many […]
Floating Coast is the first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada. The unforgiving territories along the Bering Strait had long been home to […]
What was the most surprising thing to come of the American Revolution was triumph over the titan of military power that was Britain. Their navy, especially, was impossibly vast and […]
