Our Collection of Rhode Island History Articles

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