The Rhode Island Historical Magazine
Author : Henry Edward Turner
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Page : 590 pages
File Size : 19,19 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Rhode Island
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Author : Henry Edward Turner
Publisher :
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 19,19 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Rhode Island
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Author : Henry Edward Turner
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 37,26 MB
Release : 1881
Category : Rhode Island
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Author : Henry Edward Turner
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,18 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Rhode Island
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Author : John Ward Dean
Publisher :
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 1857
Category : United States
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Page : 498 pages
File Size : 49,4 MB
Release : 1857
Category : United States
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Author : Glenn V. Laxton
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 18,51 MB
Release : 2009-11-27
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1625843038
Hidden History of Rhode Island delivers the best Ocean State stories you've never heard before. Surprising tales and unexpected anecdotes color Rhode Island's legacy, from the accounts of its three brave Titanic survivors to the whirlwind Revolutionary War romance between a Smithfield girl and a French viscount. Rhode Island historian Glenn Laxton uncovers the exceptional citizens whom history has forgotten, like Robert the Hermit, a man who endured three escapes from slavery before finding liberty and peace in Rumford; the illustrious Lippitt family, who spearheaded advancements in deaf education; and Christiana Bannister, a Narragansett tribe member, nineteenth-century entrepreneur and wife to the most successful African American artist of the time. With moments of tragedy, as in the Lexington steamboat disaster, as well as triumph, as in the case of small-town boy turned baseball hero Joe Connolly, Laxton reveals Rhode Island beneath the surface.
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Page : 1298 pages
File Size : 28,28 MB
Release : 1931
Category : Poultry
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Author : Mark Peterson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 29,66 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0691209170
In the vaunted annals of America's founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary "city upon a hill" and the "cradle of liberty" for an independent United States. Wresting this iconic urban center from these misleading, tired clich s, The City-State of Boston highlights Boston's overlooked past as an autonomous city-state, and in doing so, offers a pathbreaking and brilliant new history of early America. Following Boston's development over three centuries, Mark Peterson discusses how this self-governing Atlantic trading center began as a refuge from Britain's Stuart monarchs and how--through its bargain with slavery and ratification of the Constitution - it would tragically lose integrity and autonomy as it became incorporated into the greater United States. Drawing from vast archives, and featuring unfamiliar alongside well-known figures, such as John Winthrop, Cotton Mather, and John Adams, Peterson explores Boston's origins in sixteenth-century utopian ideals, its founding and expansion into the hinterland of New England, and the growth of its distinctive political economy, with ties to the West Indies and southern Europe. By the 1700s, Boston was at full strength, with wide Atlantic trading circuits and cultural ties, both within and beyond Britain's empire. After the cataclysmic Revolutionary War, "Bostoners" aimed to negotiate a relationship with the American confederation, but through the next century, the new United States unraveled Boston's regional reign. The fateful decision to ratify the Constitution undercut its power, as Southern planters and slave owners dominated national politics and corroded the city-state's vision of a common good for all. Peeling away the layers of myth surrounding a revered city, The City-State of Boston offers a startlingly fresh understanding of America's history.
Author : Rhode Island Historical Society
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 17,70 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Rhode Island
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From 1893-1900 the Publications of the Society include its Proceedings, 1892/93-1899/1900.
Author : Christian McBurney
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 20,90 MB
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1439660727
Rhode Island's contribution to World War II vastly exceeded its small size. Narragansett Bay was an armed camp dotted by army forts and navy facilities. They included the country's most important torpedo production and testing facilities at Newport and the Northeast's largest naval air station at Quonset Point. Three special, top-secret German POW camps were based in Narragansett and Jamestown. Meanwhile, Rhode Island workers from all over the state - including, for the first time, many women - manufactured military equipment and built warships, most notably the Liberty ships at Providence Shipyard. Authors from the Rhode Island history blog smallstatebighistory.com trace Rhode Island's outsized wartime role, from the scare of an enemy air raid after Pearl Harbor to the war's final German U-boat sunk off Point Judith.