The Germans in Rhode Island
Author : Raymond L. Sickinger
Publisher : Rhode Island Publications Society
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 10,42 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN :
World War II Rhode Island
Author : Christian McBurney
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,24 MB
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1439660727
Book Description
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.
Leaders of Rhode Island's Golden Age, The
Author : Dr. Patrick T. Conley, With Contributions by the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 29,66 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1467141488
Book Description
Picking up where The Makers of Modern Rhode Island left off, Dr. Patrick T. Conley, president of the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame, takes us through the golden age of the state's history, from 1861 to 1900. It was during this period that Rhode Island played a leadership role in the Industrial Revolution. From military leaders like General Ambrose Burnside to social reformers such as Sarah Elizabeth Doyle and architects Charles F. McKim and Stanford White, they ensured that the state's contributions to the nation would never be forgotten. This volume includes more than one hundred biographical sketches of influential Rhode Islanders who helped make this brief span of time the greatest in the state's history.
Reminiscences of the Rhode Island Bar
Author : Abraham Payne
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,35 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Law
ISBN :
Book Description
The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Author : Thomas Williams Bicknell
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,60 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Rhode Island
ISBN :
Book Description
The Jews of Rhode Island
Author : George M. Goodwin
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 27,17 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781584654247
Book Description
A richly illustrated survey of the history and culture of Rhode Island Jews.
In The Hell Of Auschwitz; The Wartime Memoirs Of Judith Sternberg Newman [Illustrated Edition]
Author : Judith Sternberg Newman
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 29,66 MB
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1786255774
Book Description
Includes 204 photos, plans and maps illustrating The Holocaust Despite the Nazi oppression of all Jews in the lands under their control, Judith Sternberg Newman and her family were hugely fortunate to have managed get permission to settle in Paraguay in 1940. However their escape was blocked by the German authorities who refused to provide an exit visa, from that moment on, as the author notes, “fate turned against us”. As the author relates in these horrific memoirs are the torments, brutality and death at Auschwitz; the treatment that left here by the end of the war as the only surviving member of her family. She emigrated to America in 1947 where she was able to practise at her chosen profession in nursing and raise a family.
Jews of Rhode Island 1658-1958
Author : Geraldine S. Foster
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 39,37 MB
Release : 1998-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738590158
Book Description
Although the fact is seldom recognized, Jews have been a part of the American experience since the early colonial days. They brought to these shores skills and traditions that America has welcomed and rewarded. They have made major contributions to this country's social, scientific, and cultural fabric. Despite their small numbers, the Jews of Rhode Island can claim two governors and many lawyers, physicians, scientists, manufacturers, businessmen, artists, and educators in state history. The Jews of Rhode Island 1658-1958 is the first comprehensive pictorial history of the Rhode Island Jewish experience. It provides a broad sweep of the first 300 years of Jewish history in Rhode Island beginning with the very first Jewish settlers in Newport in 1658 and includes images of their lives in all parts of the state.
Census of Rhode Island, 1895
Author : Rhode Island. Census Board
Publisher :
Page : 1046 pages
File Size : 32,29 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Industrial statistics
ISBN :
Book Description
Official Register of Rhode Island Officers and Soldiers who Served in the United States Army and Navy, from 1861 to 1866
Author : Rhode Island. Adjutant General's Office
Publisher :
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 20,78 MB
Release : 1866
Category : Rhode Island
ISBN :
