Furniture Reseachers from the Yale University Art Gallery

March 26, 2014

Patricia E. Kane, Friends of American Arts Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Yale University Art Gallery, has been meticulously examining Rhode Island ...

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History Bytes: Thoughts of Summer

March 25, 2014

If you are tired of waking up to 18 degree temperatures in March, imagine the warm, sandy beaches of summer. The 1898 season at ...

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Director’s Note: March 2014

March 11, 2014

This note first appeared in the Society’s Winter/Spring 2014 Newsletter. The Spectacle of Toleration project is wrapping up this year, and we at the ...

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Found: Ojibwa Dictionary

March 6, 2014

This small volume is an Ojibwa language word book published in the 1830s to help missionaries on American Indian reservations. It was owned by ...

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History Bytes: “Twelve Years a Slave”

March 6, 2014

The Oscar winning motion picture Twelve Years a Slave tells the story of historical figure Solomon Northup and his life in Louisiana as a ...

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NHS Partners with Brown University to Document & Interpret the University’s Founding

March 6, 2014

Brown University has awarded the Newport Historical Society a $10,000 grant to support work to document and interpret the University’s founding.  The University, originally ...

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