Our Rhode Island History Articles:
- Peter Harrison, Newport’s Master Colonial Architect
- Identifying the French Landing Site in Newport
- Albert Klyberg in Retrospect
- Rhode Island’s Electoral College Controversy in the Presidential Election of 1876
- “Citizen” James Varnum and His Fight for the Veterans of the Revolutionary War
- Pearl Harbor Attack Panics Rhode Islanders
- Book Review: Dark Work, The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island
- “I’m a Good Old Rebel:” Ocean State Confederates
- Rhode Island’s Founding Documents: The Rhode Island Patent of March 1643/44 and the Acts and Orders of 1647
- Peter Gerry, Former U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, is in the News Today
- The Naval Training Station at Newport: A Place in U.S. Naval History
- Rhode Island Advertising Currency
- The South Kingstown Town Council Refuses to Free Patience, a Slave
- Abraham Lincoln Visits Rhode Island
- The Merci Train Visits Woonsocket: A French Connection
- Walter Massie, a Remarkable Wireless Radio Pioneer
- “I have never heard of him since” – The Case of Scituate’s James A. Matteson
- Top Ten Rhode Islanders from the Eighteenth Century
- A French Officer Seeks to Rebuild Aquidneck Island’s Revolutionary War Fortifications
- The End of School Segregation in Rhode Island
- Filibuster, Fisticuffs and a Bomb: The Battle for the 1924 Rhode Island Senate
- Pookie the Dog: A Life of Leisure and Regality
- Ebenezer Knight Dexter: An Enduring Legacy to the People of Providence
- July 19, the Real Rhode Island Independence Day
- Sissieretta Jones, Providence’s Famous Soprano
- A Connecticut WAVE at Quonset Point
- Building the Replicas of Revolutionary War Ships Rose and Providence
- George H. Corliss
- Early Accounts of Kent County by Travelers Near and from Afar
- Rhode Island’s Last Civil War Veteran: An Irishman
- Kady Brownell: A Civil War Vivandiere
- A Colonial-Era Masterwork by Peter Harrison in Newport: The Touro Synagogue
- Top 20 Greatest Rhode Islanders of All Time: Counting Down from Number 5 to 1
- Top 20 Greatest Rhode Islanders of All Time: Counting Down from Number 10 to 6
- Top 20 Greatest Rhode Islanders of All Time: Counting Down from Number 15 to 11
- Top 20 Greatest Rhode Islanders of All Time: Counting Down from Number 20 to 16
- Newport Gardner: From Slave to Musical Composer
- Rhode Island Women of Color During the Great War
- Captain Daniel Fones, Colonial Naval Hero
- Newport Woman Fills Important Role in the Civil War
- French Soldiers Who Died at Newport During the Revolutionary War
- Roger Williams: A Rhode Island and American Founder
- A Rhode Islander in the Freedmen’s Bureau
- A German U-Boat in Newport Harbor During World War I
- “So Neare As We May Judge:” Jury Duty in Early Rhode Island
- The Narragansett Pacer: Where and How It Evolved, Flourished, and Died Out
- Verrazzano Visits the Narragansett Indians in 1524
- How Curious! A Coal Mine in Cranston
- Pettaquamscutt Rock Commemorated, May 11, 1958
- Dirty Work, Clean Money: The Life of Whaling Ship Captain John Deblois and his Wife Henrietta
- George T. Downing: Rhode Island’s Most Prominent African American Leader
- Collecting Rhode Island’s Remarkable Election Ballots
- David Sherman Baker and the Stolen Election of 1893
- John M. Hay at Brown University
- Two Rhode Islanders Make It Big in Texas: Albert Martin at the Alamo and Shanghai Pierce the Cattle Baron
- The Hurricane of 1938: An Oral History Told by Nancy Allen Holst, Forest Fire Warden and Pilot Part II: The Great Timber Blowdown
- The Hurricane of 1938: An Oral History Told by Nancy Allen Holst, Forest Fire Warden and Pilot Part I: The Devastating Damage She Witnessed
- “Died in the Service of his Country:” A New Look at Rhode Island Civil War Death Records
- Vampires in Exeter? The Gruesome Tale of Mercy L. and Edwin A. Brown
- The French Soldiers Commemorated at the North Burial Ground in Providence
- Unfortunate Ends: Gleanings from the Death Notices of Early Rhode Island Newspapers
- Photo Detective: Middletown Veteran is the Mystery VJ-Day Kissing Sailor
- The Culper Spy Ring Was Not The First To Warn The French at Newport
- Sidney Rider and The Business of Rhode Island History
- Supplying Water to Providence: Cranston’s “Slow Sand” Filtration Plant, Circa 1905
- The Larchmont Disaster Off Block Island, Rhode Island’s Titanic
- Photo Detective: Visiting Providence’s Past in 3D
- The Birth of American Industry: Why Pawtucket?
- Edson F. Gallaudet – A Rhode Island Aircraft Pioneer
- “Money I have none:” Colonial Rhode Island’s Tradition of Negotiating Their Taxes and the Coming of the American Revolution
- Jemima Wilkinson: the First American-Born Woman to Found a Religious Movement
- A Colonial Newport Tunnel Perfect for Smuggling?
- Smallstatebighistory Interviews Bob Ryan of Wakefield Books
- Brotherly Love: Thomas and Allen Dorr at Phillips Exeter Academy
- The Republic of Rhode Island
- John Angell: The Last Gortonist
- About That Lake in Westerly’s Wilcox Park
- Zachariah Allen: Scientist, Inventor, and Visionary
- The Prisoner-of-War Camps at Forts Getty and Wetherill in Jamestown: Reeducating World War II German POWs with the Best of Intentions
- The Top Secret World War II Prisoner-of-War Camp at Fort Kearney in Narragansett
- Newport Philips: A North Kingstown Slave Negotiates his Way to Freedom
- Mayor Thomas P. McCoy (the “Prince of Pawtucket”) and the Building of McCoy Stadium (“McCoy’s Folly”)
- Top 10 Early Rhode Island History Books
- Gertrude Johnson and Mary Wales: Two Trailblazers in Rhode Island Education
- Silas Cooke’s War: the Sufferings of a Civilian on the Front Lines
- Tom Dorr: Up Close and Personal
- The Fourteenth Regiment Rhode Island Heavy Artillery (Colored) During the Civil War
- From Saints to Bootleggers: The Struggle for Temperance and Prohibition in Kent County, 1805-1937. Part II: Prohibition and the Gangster Carl Rettich, 1920-1937
- From Saints to Bootleggers: The Struggle for Temperance and Prohibition in Kent County, 1805-1937 Part I: The Struggle for Temperance, 1805-1889
- Providence’s Merchants Influence the State to Ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1790
- Arnold Buffum and Elizabeth Buffum Chace
- Top Ten Turning Points in Rhode Island’s History
- The Tragic 1925 Sinking of the Submarine USS S-51
- The Providence Macaroni Riots of 1914
- The People’s Martyr
- Father of “12 Years a Slave” Protagonist Hailed from North Kingstown