Whaling “is a wretched life [of] privations and hardship deprived of friends and society,” John Scott Deblois (1816-1885) wrote in an 1844 letter to his family in Newport. [1] Voyages … Read More
The End of School Segregation in Rhode Island
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Newport Philips: A North Kingstown Slave Negotiates his Way to Freedom
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A German U-Boat in Newport Harbor During World War I
“Died in the Service of his Country:” A New Look at Rhode Island Civil War Death Records
The Birth of American Industry: Why Pawtucket?
Filibuster, Fisticuffs and a Bomb: The Battle for the 1924 Rhode Island Senate
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Albert Klyberg in Retrospect
George T. Downing: Rhode Island’s Most Prominent African American Leader
Smallstatebighistory Interviews Bob Ryan of Wakefield Books
The Culper Spy Ring Was Not The First To Warn The French at Newport
Peter Harrison, Newport’s Master Colonial Architect
February 3, 2017
Identifying the French Landing Site in Newport
January 20, 2017
January 14, 2017
Rhode Island’s Electoral College Controversy in the Presidential Election of 1876
January 6, 2017
“Citizen” James Varnum and His Fight for the Veterans of the Revolutionary War
December 16, 2016
Pearl Harbor Attack Panics Rhode Islanders
December 9, 2016
Book Review: Dark Work, The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island
December 2, 2016
“I’m a Good Old Rebel:” Ocean State Confederates
November 25, 2016
Rhode Island’s Founding Documents: The Rhode Island Patent of March 1643/44 and the Acts and Orders of 1647
November 11, 2016
Peter Gerry, Former U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, is in the News Today
November 3, 2016