Rhode Island History articles, January 1942 – Fall 2007

Compiled by Hillard Beller, 2008

1942 (vol. 1)

January

"John Brown House Accepted by the Society for Its Home," by George L. Miner

"The City Seal of the City of Providence," by Bradford Fuller Swan

"Commodore Perry Opens Japan," by A[lice] V[an] H[oesen] [?]

"A Rhode Islander Goes West to Indiana," communicated by George A. White Jr.

General Washington's Correspondence concerning The Society of the Cincinnati, reviewed by S. E. Morison

April

"The Issues of the Dorr War," by John Bell Rae

"The Revolutionary Correspondence of Nathanael Greene and John Adams," by Bernhard Knollenberg

"A Rhode Islander Goes West to Indiana" (continued), communicated by George A. White Jr.

"Roger Williams: Leader of Democracy," reviewed by Clarence E. Sherman

July

"An Italian Painter Comes to Rhode Island," by Helen Nerney

"Biographical Note: Sullivan Dorr," by Howard Corning

"The Revolutionary Correspondence of Nathanael Greene and John Adams" (continued), by Bernhard Knollenberg

"Last Meeting Held at the Old Cabinet," by B[radford] F[uller[ S[wan]

"A Rhode Islander Goes West to Indiana" (continued), communicated by George A. White Jr.

"The Great Suffrage Parade," communicated by John B. Rae

"A Plymouth Friend of Roger Williams," by Bradford Fuller Swan

"The Brown Papers: The Record of a Rhode Island Business Family," by James B. Hedges, reviewed by W. G. Roelker

October

"Mrs. Vice-President Adams Dines with Mr. John Brown and Lady: Letters of Abigail Adams to Her Sister Mary Cranch," notes by Martha W. Appleton

"The Gilbert Stuart House," by Caroline Hazard

"Order of Exercises at the Celebration of the 200th Anniversary of the Birthday of General Nathanael Greene

"The Youth of General Greene," by Theodore Francis Green

"General Nathanael Greene's Contributions to the War of American Independence," by William Greene Roelker

"A Rhode Islander Goes West to Indiana" (continued), communicated by George A. White Jr.

"Four Hundred Dollars for a Hat--When Inflation Raged in Rhode Island," by M. Randolph Flather

The Sword on the Table, by Winfield Townley Scott, reviewed by Christopher LaFarge

"The Brown Papers," by W[illiam] G[reene] R[oelker]

1943 (vol. 2)

January

"Samuel Gorton's Master Stroke," by William Greene Roelker

"The Scott Family Needle Work," by Richard LeBaron Bowen

"The Development of the Neck," by John Hutchins Cady

"Receipt for Shaving Captain Joseph Tillinghast," from John Howland

The Newport Tower--Norse Church or Stone-Built Windmill, by Philip Ainsworth Means, reviewed by Lawrence C. Wroth

"Warwick Tercentenary (1643-1943," by W[illiam] G[reene] R[oelker]

"Role of an Historical Society in Time of War," by Kenneth B. Murdock

April

"Attacks by Algerian Pirates Create Demand for American Navy (1793-94)," by Paul Francis Gleeson

"The Scott Family Needle Work" (continued), by Richard LeBaron Bowen

"Articles of the Mutual Fire Society (1802)"

"Shepherd Tom's Grandfather," by Caroline Hazard

"The American Dream--1841 (Francis Wayland)"

"Rehoboth (Mass.) Tercentenary," by W[illiam] G[reene] R[oelker]

Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, complied by M. D. R. von Redlich, reviewed by Richard LeBaron Bowen

Jews in New England, by Samuel Broches, reviewed by William G. Braude

July

"John Brown's Katy, Afterwards Continental Armored Sloop, Providence," by George L. Miner

"Instructions to Capt. Whipple, Cmmdr of the Sloop Kary"

"The Development of the Neck" (continued), by John Hutchins Cady

"The Society's Original Manuscripts: Capt. Robert Keayne's Note Books," by Richard LeBaron Bowen

Rhode Island Colonial Money and Its Counterfeiting, by Richard LeBaron Bowen, reviewed by Donald Lines Jacobus

October

"Rhode Island Pioneers in Regulation of Banking," by John B. Rae

"John Quincy Adams Admires Mr. John Brown's House"

"The Development of the Neck" (continued), by John Hutchins Cady

"Report of War Records Subdivision, State Council of Defense," by W[illiam] G[reene] R[oelker]

A Chronicle of the Family of Edward F. Beale of Philadelphia, prepared by Maria Scott Beale Chance, reviewed by Susanna Valentine Mitchell

"American Rooms in Miniature," by Lydia Powel

"Hezekiah Anthony Dyer (1873-1943)," by W[illiam] G[reene] R[oelker]

1944 (vol. 3)

January

"The Political Consequences of the Burning of the Gaspee," by Eugene Wulsin

"The Old Town Pounds of Rhode Island," by Anne Crawford Holst

"A Painting of Roger Williams," by Bradford F. Swan

"Asa Whitney's Effort in Rhode Island to Promote a Railroad to the Pacific," communicated by John B. Rae

"Pemberton of St. Albans and the Mother of Roger Williams," by G. Andrews Moriarty

Mill Village, by Alberic A. Archambault, reviewed by George W. Gardiner

While Benefit Street Was Young, by Margaret Bingham Stillwell, reviewed by George L. Miner

April

"The Development of the Neck" (continued), by John Hutchins Cady

"References to Dubertus Articles," by Bradford F. Swan

"The Political Consequences of the Burning of the Gaspee" (concluded) by Eugene Wulsin

"Pemberton of St. Albans and the Mother of Roger Williams" (continued), by G. Andrews Moriarty

July

"Sullivan Dorr, China Trader," by Howard Corning

"Pemberton of St. Albans and the Mother of Roger Williams" (concluded), by G. Andrews Moriarty

The Providence Oath of Allegiance and Its Signers, 1651-2, by Richard LeBaron Bowen, reviewed by Arthur Adams

The Town That Saved a State, by Mary Agnes Best, reviewed by George W. Gardiner

October

"Christian Lodowick of Newport and Leipzig," by Harold S. Jantz

"The Development of the Neck" (continued), by John Hutchins Cady

"From the Log of Frederick Grinnell's Schooner Lydia," extracted by Francis H. Stone

"An Unpublished Letter of Roger Williams," by Bradford F. Swan Winthrop Papers, vol. 3, 1631-1637, reviewed by Bradford F.Swan

1945 (vol. 4)

January

"The Constitutional Convention of 1944," by Gov, J. Howard McGrath

"Observances of the Centennial of Butler Hospital," by Paul J. Spencer

A Century of Butler Hospital, reviewed by James B. Hedges

"Christian Lodowick of Newport and Leipzig" (continued), by Harold S. Jantz

Francis Wayland, a Neglected Pioneer of Higher Education, by William G. Roelker, reviewed by Henry M. Wriston

April

"The Cable Tramway System of Providence," by Alonzo R. Williams

"The Development of the Neck" (concluded), by John Hutchins Cady

"Providence Theatricals in 1773," by S. Foster Damon

"A Pre-Revolutionary Incident," extracted by Mary T. Quinn

July

"Joseph Brown, Scientist and Architect," by J. Walter Wilson

"Moses Brown on Fire-Fighting," communicated by Robert Morton Hazelton

"James Brown's Diary, 1801-2," transcribed by Bradford F. Swan

"John Scott, Merchant," by Richard LeBaron Bowen

Local History: How to Gather It, Write It, and Publish It, by Donald Dean Parker, reviewed by William B. Hesseltine

Good-Bye, Proud World, by Margaret Emerson Bailey, reviewed by Margaret B. Stillwell

Roger Conant, a Founder of Massachusetts, by Clifford K. Shipton, reviewed by W[illiam] G[reene] R[oelker]

Ask No Quarter, by George Marsh, reviewed by B[radrord] F. S[wan]

October

"Rural Economy in Rhode Island 200 Years Ago, As Revealed in the Account Books of Benoni Waterman of Warwick, 1733-1740," by Carl R. Woodward

"The Merger of the Two Oldest Banks in Providence," by William Greene Roelker

"Joseph Brown, Scientist and Architect" (concluded), by J. Walter Wilson

1946 (vol. 5)

January

"George H. Corliss of Providence, Inventor," by Robert S. Holding

Early Rehoboth, vol. 1, by Richard LeBaron Bowen, reviewed by Clifford K. Shipton

"The Providence Plantations Canal," by William Greene Roelker

The Pageant of Benefit Street Down through the Years, by Margaret Bingham Stillwell, reviewed by George L. Miner

"The Hard Winter of 1740," memorandum in the Ward Papers, in the handwriting of William Greene

April

"The Judgment of History on American Business," by Stanley Pargellis

"What the Scholar Asks of Business," by Shepard B. Clough

"The Providence Cable Tramway," by Albert W. Claflin

"The Providence Plantations Canal" (concluded), by William Greene Roelker
"New Light on Newport Tower," by B[radrord] F. S[wan]

July

"Roger Williams and the Insane," by Bradford F. Swan

"An Appeal for the Glebe," communicated by Charles R. Haslam

"Steamship Expedition," by William King Covell

"More on the Old Stone Mill," by B[radrord] F. S[wan]

"The Relationship between the Patriotic Society and the Historical Society," by Arthur Adams

"What Every Good American Wife Should Be: A Patriot's Extimate," communicated by Sidney I. Pomerantz

October

"How Acid Factory Brook Got Its Name," by Roger Tillinghast Clapp

"The New England Governors vs. Lincoln: The Providence Conference," by William B. Hasseltine and Hazel C. Wolf

"Captain Cornelius Soule," by William Greene Roelker

Letters of Sullivan Dorr, ed Howard Corning, reviewed by James B. Hedges

"Rural Economy in Rhode Island 200 Years Ago" (concluded), by Carl R. Woodward

The First Century of the John Carter Brown Library, by Lawrence C. Wroth, reviewed by W. A. Jackson

Title Page and Index of Volumes I-V, 1942-1946

1947 (vol. 6)

January

"The Validity of Antiquarianism," by Lawrence C. Wroth

"The Quonset Hut," by Henry G. Jackson

"The Providence Cable Tramway" (concluded), by Albert W. Claflin

Early Rehoboth, vol. 2, by Richard LeBaron Bowen, reviewed by Clifford K. Shipton

April

"Robert Feke, Portrait Painter," by Henry Wilder Foote

"John Callender," by Clifford K. Shipton

"Governor Samuel Ward, Farmer and Merchant," by William Greene Roelker

July

"Documents Relating to the Ray, Greene, and Turner Families," by G. Andrews Moriarty

"Miniature Tableware," by Dorothy Needham Casey

"Roger Williams Manuscripts in the Society's Library," by Bradford F. Swan

Patterns on the River, by Mathias P. Harpin, reviewed by Susanne R. Lewis Brown

October

"The Providence Tippecanoe Club"

"James Brown's Diary (1787-1789)," transcribed and annotated by Clarkson A, Collins 3rd

"United States and Paraguay Navigation Company," by Joan Lawton

"The Newport Citizens Cup Race," by Francis H. Stone Jr.

"The British Wife of Joseph Jenks, the Patentee," by Albert Ernest Jenks

1948 (vol. 7)

January

"Newport Tower or Mill," by Kenneth J. Conant

Weybosset Bridge in Providence Planations, by Arthur E. Wilson, reviewed by Clifford K. Shipton

"James Brown's Diary (1787-1789" (continued), transcribed and annotated by Clarkson A, Collins 3rd

"The Patrol of Narragansett Bay (1773-76) by H.M.S. Rose, Captain James Wallace," extracted and transcribed by William G. Roelker, written and annotated by Clarkson Collins 3rd

"The Providence Negro Community, 1820-1842," by Julian Rammelkamp

April

"Old Rocky Point," by Horace G. Belcher

"James Brown's Diary (1787-1789" (concluded), transcribed and annotated by Clarkson A, Collins 3rd

"Richard Bache's Letter to His Wife"

July

"The Origin of Newport Tower," by Hjalmar R. Holand

"A Key to the Problem of the Newport Tower," by Frederick J. Pohl

"Abigail Williams, Wife of Miles or Michael de Courcy of Newport, R.I.," by G. Andrews Moriarty

"The Patrol of Narragansett Bay (1773-76) by H.M.S. Rose Captain James Wallace" (continued), extracted and transcribed by William G. Roelker, written and annotated by Clarkson Collins 3rd

Early Rehoboth, vol. 3, by Richard LeBaron Bowen, reviewed by Clifford K. Shipton

Angell's Lane: The History of a Little Street in Providence, by George Leland Miner, reviewed by Margaret B. Stillwell

October

"Rhode Island and the Australian Trade, 1792-1812," by Lloyd G. Churchward

"The Old Stone Mill, Newport," by Herbert Pell

"A Blockfront Secretary," by Mabel Munson Swan

"The Design of the John Brown House," by Norman Morrison Isham, edited by John Hutchins Cady

1949 (vol. 8)

January

"Why Rhode Island Opposed the Federal Constitution: The Continental Impost," by Hillman Metcalf Bishop

"Weybosset Bridge," by John Hutchins Cady

"D. B. Updike and the Merrymount Press," by Clarence E. Sherman

April

"Why Rhode Island Opposed the Federal Constitution: The Paper Money Era" (continued), by Hillman Metcalf Bishop

"The Patrol of Narragansett Bay (1774-76)" (continued), by William Greene Roelker

July

"First Rhode Islander in Tasmania," by Thomas Dunbabin

"The Patrol of Narragansett Bay (1774-76) by H.M.S. Rose, Captain James Wallace" (continued), extracted and transcribed by William G. Roelker; written and annotated by Clarkson A. Collins 3rd

"Why Rhode Island Opposed the Federal Constitution: Paper Money and the Constitution" (continued), by Hillman Metcalf Bishop

October

"Mr. Tambo and Mr. Bones: Rhode Island in Negro Minstrelsy," by Horace G. Belcher

"Why Rhode Island Opposed the Federal Constitution: Political Reasons" (concluded), by Hillman Metcalf Bishop

Index to the Early Records of the Town of Providence, vols. 1-21, by Richard LeBaron Bowen, reviewed by Clarence S. Brigham

A Rhode Island Chaplain in the Revolution: Letters of Ebenezer David to Nicholas Brown, 1775-1778, edited by Jeannette D. Black and William Greene Roelker, reviewed by Edmund S. Morgan

1950 (vol. 9)

January

"The Dorr Rebellion and the Federal Constitution," by Charles O. Lerche Jr.

"The Patrol of Narragansett Bay (1774-76) by H.M.S. Rose, Captain James Wallace" (continued), extracted and transcribed by William G. Roelker; written and annotated by Clarkson A. Collins 3rd

One Hundred Fifty Years of Providence Washington Insurance Company, by William Greene Roelker and Clarkson A. Collins III, reviewed by Arthur H. Cole

April

"John Smibert and Robert Feke in Newpart," by Henry Wilder Foote

"Godfrey Malbone's Armorial Silver," by Richard LeBaron Bowen

"The Patrol of Narragansett Bay (1774-76) by H.M.S. Rose, Captain James Wallace" (concluded), extracted and transcribed by William G. Roelker; written and annotated by Clarkson A. Collins 3rd

"State Song of Rhode Island," by Kenneth E. Crouch

Benjamin Franklin and Catharine Ray Greene--Their Correspondence, edited and annotated by William Greene Roelker, reviewed by Bernhard Knollenberg

July

"The Early History of Rhode Island's Court System," by John T. Farrell

"The Providence Franklin Society," by Robert J. Taylor

"Godfrey Malbone's Armorial Silver" (concluded), by Richard LeBaron Bowen
Rhode Island Imprints, 1727-1800, edited by John Eliot Alden, reviewed by R. W. G. Vail

October

"Rhode Island Imprints and the Historical Society," by Bradford F. Swan

"The Early History of Rhode Island's Court System" (continued), by John T. Farrell

Early Rehoboth, vol. 4, by Richard LeBaron Bowen, reviewed by Clifford K. Shipton

"The Providence Franklin Society" (concluded), by Robert J. Taylor

1951 (vol. 10)

January

"Pictures of Providence in the Past, 1790-1820: The Reminiscences of Walter R. Danforth," edited by Clarkson A. Collins 3rd

"The Early History of Rhode Island's Court System" (concluded), by John T. Farrell

The Letters of Benjamin Franklin and Jane Mecom, edited with an introduction by Carl Van Doren, and Jane Mecom, the Favorite Sister of Benjamin Franklin: Her Life Here First Fully Narrated from Their Entire Surviving Correspondence, by Carl Van Doren, reviewed by William Greene Roelker

April

"The Voyage of the Marcury," by Earl C. Tanner

"Pictures of Providence in the Past, 1790-1820: The Reminiscences of Walter R. Danforth" (continued), edited by Clarkson A. Collins 3rd

Career Women of America, by Elizabeth Anthony Dexter, reviewed by Ben C. Clough

Paddy Wilson's Meeting-house in Providence Plantations, 1791-1839: Being an Account of a Genial Irish Parson Who Shaped a Community's Culture and Life, by Arthur E. Wilson, reviewed by William J. Robbins

"John Brown's Attempt at Conciliation with the British, 1775"

July

"The Southwest Corner of the Shawomet Purchase," by Charles M. Perry

"The Voyage of the Marcury" (concluded), by Earl C. Tanner

"Pictures of Providence in the Past, 1790-1820: The Reminiscences of Walter R. Danforth" (continued), edited by Clarkson A. Collins 3rd

"A Sailor's Enigma" (a puzzle in verse)

October

"The Beavertail Lighthouse," by Susan B. Franklin

"History of Castle Hill Light Station, Newport, Rhode Island," compiled by the United States Coast Guard from data in the National Archives

"First Congregational Society Pew Holders, 1816

"Pictures of Providence in the Past, 1790-1820: The Reminiscences of Walter R. Danforth" (continued), edited by Clarkson A. Collins 3rd

1952 (vol. 11)

January

"Three Men in an Industrial Century: Jabez Gorham, John Gorham, Edward Holbrook," by Edmund C. Mayo

"First Congregational Society Pew Holders, 1816" (continued)

"Pictures of Providence in the Past, 1790-1820: The Reminiscences of Walter R. Danforth" (continued), edited by Clarkson A. Collins 3rd

April

"The Luther Cases in the Lower Courts," by Mahlon H. Hellerich

"First Congregational Society Pew Holders, 1816" (continued)

"Pictures of Providence in the Past, 1790-1820: The Reminiscences of Walter R. Danforth" (concluded), edited by Clarkson A. Collins 3rd

Correspondence of Governor Samuel Ward, May 1775-March 1776," edited by Bernhard Knollenberg; Genealogy of the Ward Family, compiled by Clifford P. Monahon, reviewed by Edmund S. Morgan

The Biography of a Church, by Gardiner M. Day, reviewed by W[illiam] G[reene] R[oelker]

July

"The Providence Town Papers," by Bradford F. Swan

"First Congregational Society Pew Holders, 1816" (concluded)

"The Iroquois Visit Rochambeau at Newport, 1780," by Durand Echeverria

"Eleazer Arnold," by William Greene Roelker

"Herodias (Long) Hicks-Gardiner-Porter: A Tale of Old Newport," by G. Andrews Moriarty

"The Counterfeiting Venture of Abel and Samuel Chapin," by Kenneth Scott

The Architectural Heritage of Newport, Rhode Island, by Antoinette F. Downing and Vincent J. Scully Jr., reviewed by John Hutchins Cady

Who Lived Here? A Baker's Dozen of Historic New England Houses and Their Occupants, text by M. A. DeWolf Howe, photographs by Samuel Chamberlain, reviewed by W[illiam] G[reene] R[oelker]

October

"The Providence Market House and Its Neighborhood," by John Hutchins Cady

"Anarch in Rhode Island," by Abe C. Ravitz

"In Old Pawtucket," by Horace G. Belcher

The Browns of Providence Plantations: Colonial Years, by James B. Hedges, reviewed by Curtis P. Nettels

1953 (vol. 12)

January

"The Rhode Island Historical Society: An Appraisal," by Earle W. Newton

Science and Technology in Providence, 1760-1914: An Essay in the History of Brown University in the Metropolitan Community, by Donald Fleming, reviewed by Albert E. Lownes

"The Gaspee Affair: A Study of Its Constitutional Significance," by William R. Leslie, reviewed by William H. Edwards

"Two Early New England Captains of the Hudson Bay Company," by G. Andrews Moriarty

"Trouble at the Custom House--1790: Samuel Slater's Trunk"

April

"Two Rhode Island Imprints of 1727," by Bradford F. Swan

"Eighteenth Century Grenadier Caps," by Anne S. K. Brown

"Gideon Casey, Rhode Island Silversmith and Counterfeiter," by Kenneth Scott

"The Newport Tower Mystery," by Hjalmar R. Holand

"John Brown Bets a Hat"

July

"John Brown's Dinner Set," by Eleanore Bradford Monahon

"Notes on Two Early Rhode Island Governors," by Bertha W. Clark (John Cranston and Caleb Carr)

"A Lost Woman Digged Out of Oblivion," by Katharine U. Waterman

"The Newport Tower Mystery" (concluded), by Hjalmar R. Holand

"Block Island Cemetery Records," compiled and arranged by Helen Winslow Mansfield

October

"Rhode Island Literature," by Randall Stewart

"The Hammett Pamphlets and Their Author," by Bradford F. Swan

"William Ellery, Signer of the Declaration of Independence," by Susan B. Franklin

"An Answer to the Norse Theory," by Herbert Pell

"Block Island Cemetery Records" (continued), compiled and arranged by Helen Winslow Mansfield

1954 (vol. 13)

January

"Rhode Island Literature" (concluded), by Randall Stewart

"William Ellery, Signer of the Declaration of Independence" (continued), by Susan B. Franklin

Roger Williams: His Contribution to the American Tradition, by Perry Miller, reviewed by Bradford F. Swan

"Block Island Cemetery Records" (continued), compiled and arranged by Helen Winslow Mansfield

April

"The Latin-American Trade of E. Carrington & Co., 1822," by Earl C. Tanner

"William Ellery, Signer of the Declaration of Independence" (continued), by Susan B. Franklin

"A Little House Worth Preserving," by John Hutchins Cady

"Block Island Cemetery Records" (continued), compiled and arranged by Helen Winslow Mansfield

July

"Strangers: Civil Rights of Jews in the Colony of Rhode Island," David C. Adelman

"The Latin-American Trade of E. Carrington & Co., 1822" (concluded), by Earl C. Tanner

Economic Development and Population Growth in Rhode Island, by Kurt B. Mayer, reviewed by William D. Metz

"Block Island Cemetery Records" (continued), compiled and arranged by Helen Winslow Mansfield

October

"The Newport Gazette, Tory Newssheet," by Ralph Adams Brown

"Some Arnolds of Smithfield, R.I.," by H. Minot Pitman

"Block Island Cemetery Records" (continued), compiled and arranged by Helen Winslow Mansfield

1955 (vol. 14)

January

"The Thomas Poynton Ives House," by John Hutchins Cady

"The Newport Gazette, Tory Newssheet" (concluded), by Ralph Adams Brown

"A Query concerning the Old Stone Mill at Newport"

"Block Island Cemetery Records" (continued), compiled and arranged by Helen Winslow Mansfield

April

"Transcendentalism and ‘The Newness’ in Rhode Island," by Charlaes R. Crowe

"Uncle Brown Grabs a Town," by David S. Lovejoy (North Providence)

"The Ives Family and the Rhode Island Hospital," by RolandHammond

James Burrill Angell: An American Influence, by Shirley W. Smith, reviewed by Theodore R. Crane

From Slave to Citizen: The Story of the Negro in Rhode Island, by Irving H. Bartlett, reviewed by Mary Cobb Nelson

"Block Island Cemetery Records" (continued), compiled and arranged by Helen Winslow Mansfield

July

"Transcendentalism and the Providence Literati," by Charles R. Crowe

"Labor Problems in the Rhode Island Cotton Mills—-1790-1940," by Editha Hadcock

"Block Island Cemetery Records" (concluded), compiled and arranged by Helen Winslow Mansfield

October

"Caribbean Ports in the Foreign Commerce of Rhode Island, 1790-1830," by Earl C. Tanner

"Labor Problems in the Rhode Island Cotton Mills--1790-1940" (concluded), by Editha Hadcock

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture Collection," by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

1956 (vol. 15)

January

"Nathanael Greene's Letters to ‘Friend Sammy’ Ward," edited by Clifford P. Monahon and Clarkson A. Collins 3rd

"Caribbean Ports in the Foreign Commerce of Rhode Island, 1790-1830" (concluded), by Earl C. Tanner

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture Collection" (continued), by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

April

"A New View of the Declaration of War against the Narragansetts, 1675," by Douglas Edward Leach

"The Education of Dr. John Clarke," by G. Andrews Moriarty

"First Australian in Rhode Island," by Thomas Dunbabin

"Nathanael Greene's Letters to ‘Friend Sammy’ Ward" (continued), edited by Clifford P. Monahon and Clarkson A. Collins 3rd

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture Collection" (continued), by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

"Devils Foot Rock"

July

"The Samuel Snow-Sullivan Dorr Correspondence," edited by Vincent P. Carosso and Lawrence H. Leder

Elias Boudinot's Journey to Boston in 1809, edited by Milton Halsey Thomas, reviewed by S. Foster Damon

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture Collection" (continued), by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

October

"Moses Brown's ‘Account of Journey to Distribute Donations12th Month 1775,’" with an introduction by Mack E. Thompson

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture Collection" (continued), by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

Index to Volumes 6-15, 1947-1956

1957 (vol. 16)

January

"Burnside: A Rhode Island Hero," by Knight Edwards

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture Collection" (continued), by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

April

"New Light on the Sullivan Dorr House," by Antoinette F. Downing

"Nathanael Greene: A Biographical Sketch by a Contemporary, Joseph Reed," by John F. Roche

"Nathanael Greene's Letters to ‘Friend Sammy’ Ward" (continued), edited by Clifford P. Monahon and Clarkson A. Collins 3rd

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture Collection" (continued), by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

July

"South American Ports in the Foreign Commerce of Providence," 1800-1830," by Earl C. Tanner

"Nathanael Greene's Letters to ‘Friend Sammy’ Ward" (continued), edited by Clifford P. Monahon and Clarkson A. Collins 3rd

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture Collection" (continued), by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

October

"Benjamin B. Carter, Physician Extraordinary," by Robert W. Kenny

"The Old Original," by Leslie Allen Jones (a church's clock)

"Nathanael Greene's Letters to ‘Friend Sammy’ Ward" (continued), edited by Clifford P. Monahon and Clarkson A. Collins 3rd

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture Collection" (continued), by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

1958 (vol. 17)

January

"Early Music in Rhode Island Churches: I. Music in the First Congregational Church, Providence, 1770-1850," by Joyce Ellen Mangler

"The Theatre in Rhode Island before the Revolution," by Constance D. Sherman

"Nathanael Greene's Letters to ‘Friend Sammy’ Ward" (concluded), edited by Clifford P. Monahon and Clarkson A. Collins 3rd

Massachusetts Records: A Handbook for Genealogists, Historians, Lawyers, and Other Researchers, by Richard LeBaron Bowen, reviewed by Clifford K. Shipton

The Civic and Architectural Development of Providence, 1636-1950, by John Hutchins Cady, reviewed by Robert N. Cook

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture Collection" (continued), by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

April

"Early Music in Rhode Island Churches: II. Music in the First Baptist Church, Providence, 1775-1834" (continued), by William Dinneen

"The William Goddard House," by John Hutchins Cady

"The Good Ship Haidie," by Harriett Wood Weeden

July

"The Isle of Rhodes: A French Vignette," by Constance D. Sherman

"Early Music in Rhode Island Churches: III. Music in King's Church (St. John's), Providence, 1722-1850" (continued), by Joyce Ellen Mangler

"A Half Sheet of Stolen Rhode Island Bills," by Kenneth Scott

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture Collection" (continued), by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

October

"The Disenchantment of Thomas W. Dorr," by Chilton Williamson

"Early Music in Rhode Island Churches: IV. Music in Beneficent Congregational Church and the Richmond Street Congregational Church, 1774-1836" (continued), by William Dinneen

The Life and Works of Edward Greene Malbone, 1777-1807, by Ruel Pardee Tolman, with an introduction by Theodore Bolton and a foreword by John Davis Hatch Jr., reviewed by Bradford F. Swan

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture Collection" (continued), by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

1959 (vol. 18)

January

"The Furnishings of Newport Houses, 1780-1800," by Wendell D. Garrett

"Utopian Socialism in Rhode Island, 1845-1850," by Charles R. Crowe

Migration and Economic Development in Rhode Island, by Kurt B. Mayer and Sidney Goldstein; The Ecology of Providence; Basic Social and Demographic Data by Census Tracts, by Sidney Goldstein and Kurt B. Mayer, reviewed by William D. Metz

A Directory of Printing, Publishing, Bookselling & Allied Trades in Rhode Island in 1865, by H. Glenn Brown and Maude O. Brown, reviewed by Rollo G. Silver

"A Hazard-Rhodes Connection," by Charles W. Farnham

April

"General Glover's Role in the Battle of Rhode Island," by George A. Billias

"Away to Rhode Island from Their Cellars," by Douglas Edward Leach (King Philip's War)

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture Collection" (continued), by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

July

"Banjamin Bosworth Smith (1794-1884): Early New England Clergyman," by W. Roabert Insko

"The Franklin Press"

"The Baker Family of Rehoboth, Massachusetts," by Walter M Baker

Rhode Island Politics and the American Revolution, 1760-1766, David S. Lovejoy, reviewed by Richard P. McCormick

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture Collection" (continued), by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

October

"A Soldier Writes His Congressman: The Civil War Letters of Livingston Scott to Thomas A. Jenckes," by Frank F. White Jr.

Collected Papers, Armorial, Genealogical, and Historical, by Richard LeBaron Bowen, reviewed by G. Andrews Moriarty

"Curious Crimes in Colonial Newport Country," be Constance D. Sherman

"A Newport Street Fight in 1768," by Kenneth Scott

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture Collection" (continued), by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

1960 (vol. 19)

January

"A Tory's Claim to the Wanton Estates," by Sydney W. Jackman

"The William Harris Manuscript"

Girl with a Musket, by Florence Parker Simister, reviewed by Virginia Fooks

"A Soldier Writes His Congressman" (concluded), by Frank F. White Jr.

"Catalog of the Rhode Island Historical Society Furniture Collection" (concluded), by Ralph E. Carpenter Jr.

April

"A Note on Providence Politics in the Age of Bryan," by Elmer E. Cornwell Jr.

"Early 19th Century Providence Exports to the Caribbean," by Earl C. Tanner

"A Tory's Claim to the Wanton Estates" (continued), by Sydney W. Jackman

July

"Francis Wayland and the Residential College," by Theodore R. Crane (Brown University)

"A Tory's Claim to the Wanton Estates" (concluded), by Sydney W. Jackman

"Early 19th Century Providence Exports to Brazil," by Earl C. Tanner

General John Glover and His Marblehead Mariners, by George Athan Billias, reviewed by Elizabeth Harriet Drew

October

"Some Interesting Transactions in Rhode Island," by Joanne L. Neel (American-British relations, 1795)

"Francis Wayland and the Residential College" (concluded), by Theodore R. Crane

1961 (vol. 20)

January

"Exile or Eden? The Chilean Experience of a Rhode Island Yankee," by Alan S. Trueblood

"A New Look at the Jireh Bull Excavation," by Eleanore Bradford Monahom

"Carr Genealogies Corrected," by Clifford P. Monahon and Clarkson A. Collins 3rd

April

"William Hamlin, Providence Engraver," by Eugene Van Wye

"Exile or Eden? The Chilean Experience of a Rhode Island Yankee" (continued), by Alan S. Trueblood

"The Parentage of Capt. Simon Rhodes (1716-1784) of Newport and Stonington," by Charles William Farnham

The History of East Greenwich, Rhode Island, 1677-1960, with Related Genealogy, by Martha R. McPartland, reviewed by Florence P. Simister

"Place-Knight Bible Records"

July

"Plagiarism by a Prophetess," by Herbert A. Wisbey Jr. (Jemima Wilkinson)

"Exile or Eden? The Chilean Experience of a Rhode Island Yankee" (concluded), by Alan S. Trueblood

"Longfellow's ‘The Jewish Cemetery at Newport,’" by Ely Stock

"Some Occupational Patters in Party Committee Membership," by Elmer E. Cornwell Jr. (party ward committees in Providence)

October

"Rhode Island Reactions to John Brown's Raid," by John Michael Ray

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some of His Descendants," by Charles William Farnham

"Shipbuilding in Colonial Rhode Island," by W. E. Minchinton

"A Note on Gregory Dexter," by Bradford F. Swan

1962 (vol. 21)

January

"The Fate of Carrington House," by Antoinette F. Downing

"The Rhode Island Lincoln Party and the 1906 Election," by Erwin L. Levine

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some of His Descendants" (continued), by Charles William Farnham

Indians, Privateers, and High Society, by Bertram Lippincott, reviewed by Leonard J. Panaggio

April

"The Providence Abolition Society," by James F. Reilly

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some of His Descendants" (continued), by Charles William Farnham

July

"Francis Wayland: Political Economist as Educator," by Theodore R. Crane

"Piracy in the Caribbean: A Rhode Island View," by Earl C. Tanner

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some of His Descendants" (continued), by Charles William Farnham

October

"Francis Wayland: Political Economist as Educator" (concluded), by Theodore R. Crane

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some of His Descendants" (continued), by Charles William Farnham

"Captains Carousing in Providence," by Clarkson Collins 3rd

1963 (vol. 22)

January

"Israel Angell and the West in 1788," by Dwight L. Smith

"The Edward Carrington Collection," Jacques M. Downs

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some of His Descendants" (continued), by Charles William Farnham

Moses Brown, Reluctant Reformer, by Mack Thompson, reviewed by William Paxton

April

"How Rhode Island Nearly Lost Reeves and the American Band," by Arlan R. Coolidge

"Israel Angell and the West in 1788" (concluded), by Dwight L. Smith

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some of His Descendants" (continued), by Charles William Farnham

William Goddard, Newspaperman, by Ward L. Miner, reviewed by Rollo G. Silver

July

"The Middle Years of the Anthony-Brayton Alliance, or Politics in the Post Office, 1874-1880," by Mary Nelson Tanner

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some of His Descendants" (continued), by Charles William Farnham

Independent Historical Societies: An Enquiry into Their Research and Publication Functions and Their Financial Future, by Walter Muir Whitehill, reviewed by Frank N. Elliott

Charles V. Chapin and the Public Health Movement, by James H. Cassedy, reviewed by Seebert J. Goldowsky

October

"Christopher A. Greene: Rhode Island Transcendentalist," by Leo Stoller

"The Collins-Richardson Fracas of 1787: A Problem in State and Federal Relations during the Confederation Era," by Irwin H. Polishook

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some of His Descendants" (continued), by Charles William Farnham

1964 (vol. 23)

January

"Providence Cabinetmakers," by Eleanore Bradford Monahon

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some of His Descendants" (continued), by Charles William Farnham

The Transformation of Rhode Island, 1790-1860, by Peter J. Coleman, reviewed by Robert O. Schulze

April

"Early Music in Rhode Island: V. Oliver Shaw and the Psallonian Society" (concluded), by Joyce Mangler Carlson

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some of His Descendants" (continued), by Charles William Farnham

July

"Rhode Isdland Cotton Manufacturing: A Study in Economic Conservation," by Peter J. Coleman

"The Religious History of a Christian Socialist: Joseph J. Cook's ‘A Personal Relation,’" by Charles R. Crowe

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some of His Descendants" (continued), by Charles William Farnham

October

"Remarks at Launching of U.S.S. Nathanael Greene (SSBN), by Wallace M Greene Jr.

"The Know-Nothing Party in Rhode Island: Religious Bigotry and Political Success," by Larry Anthony Rand

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some of His Descendants" (continued), by Charles William Farnham

"California Bound on the Ship George Washington in 1849"

1965 (vol. 24)

January

"The Rhode Island Java Trade, 1799-1836," by Sharon Ahmat

"Lewis Peckham's Choice," by Clara L. Davis

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some of His Descendants" (continued), by Charles William Farnham

April

"John Brown House Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture, May 16-June 20, 1965," by Clifford P. Monahon

"An Inquiry into the Resignation of Quartermaster General Nathanael Greene in 1780," by Thomas L. Wells

"A Letter from William Ellery to Henry Marchant," edited by Clifford P. Monahon and Clarkson A. Collins 3rd

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some of His Descendants" (continued), by Charles William Farnham

July

"Samuel Ames: The Great Chief Justice of Rhode Island," by C. Peter Magrath

"Alexandre Berthier's Journal of the American Campaign," translated by Marshall Morgan

"A Question as to Buenos Ayres: Rhode Islanders in the River Plate Slave Trade, 1806-07," by Earl C. Tanner

Winthrop's Boston: Portrait of a Puritan Town, 1630-1649, by Darrett B. Rutman, reviewed by Joyce Ransome

"John Smith, the Miller, of Providence, Rhode Island; Some of His Descendants" (concluded), by Charles William Farnham

October

"The Wreck of the Bark Montgomery," transcribed by Clarkson A. Collins 3rd, introduction by Rebecca C. Skillin

"Early 19th Century Providence Imports from the Caribbean and Brazil," by Earl C. Tanner

1966 (vol. 25)

January

"A Study in Failure--Hon. Samuel Snow," by Jacques M. Downs

"Negro Churches in Rhode Island before 1860," by Robert Glenn Sherer Jr.

"Early Years of the Hope Cotton Manufacturing Company," by Herbert T. Leyland

April

"Peter Edes's Report on the Proceedings of the Rhode Island General Assembly, 1787-1790," by Irwin H. Polishook

"An Arithmetic Workbook of 1827-1828 as a Source for Rhode Island Social History," by Ridgway F. Shinn Jr.

"The Providence Jewish Community after 125 Years of Development," by Sidney Goldstein

Thomas Smith Webb, Freemason, Musician, Entrepreneur, by Herbert T. Leyland, reviewed by Harold W. Browning

July

"HMS Gaspee--The Court Martial," by Samuel W. Bryant

"Bad Luck in the China Trade" (Peter Wanton Snow), by Jacques M. Downs

"The Parentage of William Billings, Early Pewterer of Providence, R.I.," by Charles M. Farnham

"Olney Winsor's ‘Memorandum’ of the Great Hurricane of September 23, 1815," by William G. McLoughlin

"Peter Edes's Report on the Proceedings of the Rhode Island General Assembly, 1787-1790" (continued), by Irwin H. Polishook

October

"Wilkins Updike to Sarah Helen Whitman: Two New Letters," by Alvin Rosenfeld

"The Navy at Newport: A British View, 1864," edited with an introduction by Frank J. Merli

"Peter Edes's Report on the Proceedings of the Rhode Island General Assembly, 1787-1790" (continued), by Irwin H. Polishook

1967 (vol. 26)

January

"Windmill Cottage and Longfellow," by Paul R. Ladd

"Brahmans of Washington County, R.I.," by Harold Minot Pitman

"Peter Edes's Report on the Proceedings of the Rhode Island General Assembly, 1787-1790" (concluded), by Irwin H. Polishook

American Furniture, the Federal Period, in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, by Charles F. Montgomery, reviewed by Eleanore B. Monahon

April

"The Rhode Island Business Elite, 1895-1905: A Collective Portrait," by Ian S. Haberman

"A Rhode Island Honeymoon in the Western Country," transcribed by Noel P. Conlon (an 1817 letter from Zachariah Allen)

"Castiglioni's Visit to Rhode Island," translated and annotated by Samuel Hough (from 1780s)

July

"Rhode Island Justice--1772 Vintage," by Samuel W. Bryant

"Notes from the Shelves of the Society's Library, " selected by Noel P. Conlon

"The Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island: The Moderate Phase," by Robert L. Ciaburri

"Olney Winsor's ‘Memorandum’ of the Phenomenal ‘Dark Day’ of May 19, 1780," by William G. McLoughlin

"Glocester, Rhode Island, Vital Records," by Charles W. Fanham

October

"Lexington and Concord: Rhode Island Reacts," by Joel A. Cohen

"‘The Publick Universal Friend" (Jemima Wilkinson), by J. Bruce Whyte

"Party Chaos Embroils Rhode Island" (1833-35), by Philip A. Grant Jr.

"Crew List of the Privateer Independence, 1776," by Charles W. Farnham

1968 (vol. 27)

January

"Joseph Brown, Astronomer," by Stuart F. Crump Jr.

"‘The Publick Universal Friend" (concluded), by J. Bruce Whyte

"Party Chaos Embroils Rhode Island" (concluded), by Philip A. Grant Jr.

"Notes from the Shelves," selected by Noel P. Conlon

April

"Gravestones of Rhode Island," by Dickran and Ann Tashjian

"Rhode Island's Constitutional Development, 1636-1775: A Survey," by Patrick T. Conley

June

"The College Scene in Providence, 1786-1787," transcribed and Annotated by Noel P. Conlon, introduction and interpolation by Clarkson A. Collins 3rd

Rhode Island's Constitutional Development, 1636-1775: A Survey" (concluded), by Patrick T. Conley

October

"Rhode Island Loyalism and the American Revolution," by Joel A. Cohen

"New York to Providence and Return under Sail in 1900," transcribed by Robert H. I. Goddard Jr.

"Rhode Island Imprints and Impressions--A Report"

"Notes from the Shelves of the Society's Library," selected by Noel P. Conlon

1969 (vol. 28)

Winter

"Recent Discoveries among Rhode Island Cabinetmakers and Their Work," by Joseph K. Ott

"Patience Borden and the Sterrys," by Charles W. Farnham

Spring

"Rhode Island Baptists, 1825-1931," by C. Allyn Russell

"More Notes on Rhode Island Cabinetmakers and Their Work," by Joseph K. Ott

"The Integrity of Nathanael Greene," by Francis F. McKinney

Summer

"Irish and Italians in Providence, Rhode Island, 1880-1960," by Leo E. Carroll

"Responses to the Rhode Island Workingmen's Reform Agitation of 1833," edited by Marvin E. Gettleman and Noel P. Conlon

Fall

"The Merchant as Gambler: Major William Fairchild Megee (1765-1820)," by Jacques M. Downs

"Still More Notes on Rhode Island Cabinetmakers and Allied Craftsmen," by Joseph K. Ott

"The Rhode Island Historical Society Film Archive: A Progress Report," by Kathleen Karr

"Richard LeBaron Bowen, 1878-1969," by Clarkson Collins 3rd

1970 (vol. 29)

Winter & Spring

"Democracy in Revolutionary Rhode Island: A Statistical Analysis," by Joel A. Cohen

"The Siege of Newport: Inauspicious Dawn of Alliance," by Paul F. Dearden

"Rhode Island Colonial Records," by Charles W. Farnham

"Crane's Rhode Island Company of Artillery--1775," by Thomas J. Abernathy

"Rhode Island Negroes in the Revolution: A Bibliography," by Noel P. Conlon

Summer & Fall

"The Relevance of Congregational Christianity: Barrington Congregational Church, 1717-1967," by William G. McLoughlin

"Antislavery Agencies in Rhode Island, 1832-1835," by John L. Myers

"Optimistic Democrat: Thomas W. Dorr and the Case of Luther vs. Borden," by C. Peter Magrath

"Black Settlement House, East Greenwich, 1902-1914," by Jeffrey A. Hess

1971 (vol. 30)

Winter

"Re-enfranchisement of Rhode Island Negroes," by J. Stanley Lemons and Michael A. McKenna

"Oratory and Learning: Horace Mann at Brown," by Kathleen Edgerton Kendall

"Antislavery Agents in Rhode Island, 1835-1837," by John L. Myers

Spring

"Urban Liberalism in Rhode Island, 1909-1919," by John D. Buenker

"Charles Dudley and the Customs Quandary in Pre-Revolutionay Rhode Island," by Larry R. Gerlach

"Cowesett Road, 1870-1900," by Anne Crawford Allen Holst

Summer

"Students and the Andrews Legend at Brown," by James E. Hansen II

"The French Fleet at Newport, 1780-1781," by Henry J. Yeager

"Rhode Island's Paper Money Issue and Trevett v. Weeden (1786)," by Patrick T. Conley

Fall

"Miantonomo's Death and New England Politics, 1630-1645," by John A. Sainsbury

"William Ellery: Making of a Rhode Island Politician," by William M. Fowler Jr.

"Mutiny at Camp Hubbard," by Claude M. Morgan

1972 (vol. 31)

Winter

"Facts in the Case of H. P. Lovecraft," by Barton L. St. Armand

"Social Turmoil and Governmental Reform in Providence, 1820-1832," by Howard F. Chudacoff and Theodore C. Hirt

Spring & Summer

"Paintings at John Brown House," by Frank H. Goodyear Jr.

"‘Fortunes to be Acquired’--Textiles in 18th-Century Rhode Island," by Florence M. Montgomery

"Rhode Island Housewrights, Shipwrights, and Related Craftsmen," by Joseph K. Ott

"Earning a Living, 1788-1818: Job Danforth, Cabinetmaker," by William M. Pillsbury

Fall

"Rhode Island in Disunion, 1787-1790," by Patrick T. Conley

"Sports and Franco-Americans in Woonsocket, 1870-1930," by Richard S. Sorrell

"Clarkson A. Collins 3rd (1911-1972): A Bibliography," by Noel P. Conlon

1973 (vol. 32)

Winter

"Democratic Balance--Ideals of Community in Early Portsmouth," by Dennis A. O'Toole

"Barrington Congregationalists vs. Swansea Baptists, 1711," by William G. McLoughlin

"Harbor Improvements and Fishing at Point Judith," by Carl Gersuny and John J. Poggie Jr.

Spring

"Popular Sovereignty in the Dorr War--Conservative Counterblast," by William M. Wiecek

"Fifth Ward Irish--Immigrant Mobility in Providence, 1850-1870," by Robert A. Wheeler

Summer

"The Real McCoy in the Bloodless Revolution of 1935," by Matthew J. Smith

"The Loved One--Funeral of George Mason of Newport," transcribed by Joseph K. Ott

"Providence Conspiracy of 1894," by Jeffrey M. Dorwart

Fall

"Woman in the News, 1762-1770: Sarah Updike Goddard," by Nancy Fisher Chudacoff

"The Gaspee Affair as Conspiracy," by Lawrence J. DeVaro Jr.

"John Innes Clark and His Family--Beautiful People in Providence," by Joseph K. Ott

1974 (vol. 33)

February

"Frontier Justice in Newport--1652," by Bradford F. Swan

"Colonials at Play: Leisure in Newport, 1723," by L. Douglas Good

"‘The Result May Be Glorious’--Anti-Gallows Movement in Rhode Island, 1838-1852," by Philip English Mackey

"American Paintings in the Rhode Island Historical Society-- An Introduction," by Cathleen McGuigan

May

"Textile Experiments in Rhode Island, 1788-1789," by Paul E. Rivard

"Seth Luther--The Road from Chepachet," by Carl Gersuny

August & November

"Free Love, Immortalism, and Perfectionism in Cumberland, Rhode Island, 1748-1768," by William G. McLoughlin

"Providence Architecture, 1859-1908: Stone, Carpenter and Willson," by Ronald J. Onorato

1975 (vol. 34)

February

"Pawtucket Village Mechanics--Iron, Ingenuity, and the Cotton Revolution," by Brendan F. Gilbane

"Agrarian Politics in Rhode Island, 1800-1860," by James L. Marsis

"Toward a Rhode Island History," by Albert T. Klyberg

May

"Language of Colonial Rhode Island," by Celia M. Millward

"Respectful Student Rebels," by Godfrey T. Anderson

"Italian Immigrants and the Catholic Church in Providence, 1890-1930," by Peter W. Bardaglio

August

"British Immigrants in Rhode Island during the War of 1812," by Peter J. Coleman and Penelope K. Majeske

"Fort Adams--American Example of French Military Architecture," by Willard B. Robinson

November

"Molasses to Muskets--Rhode Island, 1763-1775," by Joel A. Cohen

"Grant Us Commission to Make Reprisals upon Any Enemies Shiping," by Peter E. Jones

"Revolution's Impact on Rhode Island," by Patrick T. Conley

1976 (vol. 35)

February

"Historic Preservation in Rhode Island," by Antoinette Forrester Downing

May

"Act for All Reasons--Revolutionary Politics and May 4, 1776," by Glenn W. LaFantasie

"Rhode Island Politics, 1956-1964: Party Realignment," by Matthew J. Smith

"Early Nineteenth-Century Merchant Sail in Rhode Island," by Laura Smith Saunders

August

"The Revolution and the Town: Providence, 1775-1783," by Nancy Fisher Chudacoff

"Political Sacrifice and Demise--John Collins and Jonathan J. Hazard, 1786-1790," by John P. Kaminski

November

"Roger Williams--A Historiographical Essay," by Nancy E. Peace

"Love and Order in Roger Williams' Writings," by Robert d. Brunkow

"Roger Williams' Most Persistent Metaphor," by Bradford F. Swan

1977 (vol. 36)

February

"Rhode Island Furniture Exports, 1783-1800, Including Information on Chaises, Buildings, Other Woodenware and Trade Practices," by Joseph K. Ott

"Chaos Still Reigns in the Camp--Letters of Lieutenant George N. Bliss, 1st New England Cavalry, March-September 1862," edited by Edward G. Longacre

May

"A Man Who Dared to Stand Alone--A Sidelight on the Dorr Rebellion, 1842-1844" (Abraham Hermon Stillwell), by Margaret Bingham Stillwell

"Ninigret's Tactics of Accommodation--Indian Diplomacy in New England, 1637-1675," by Timothy J. Sehr

"Public Health and Preventive Medicine in Providence, 1913," by Abby Cohen

August

"Sentinelle Affiar (1924-1929)--Religion and Militant Survivance in Woonsocket, Rhode Island," by Richard J. Sorrell

"Eben Tourjée's Rhode Island Roots," by Edward J. FitzPatrick

"Political Loyalty in Rhode Island--A Computer Study of the 1850s," by Mario R. DiNunzio and Jan T. Galkowski

November

"George T. Downing and Desegregation of Rhode Island Public Schools, 1855-1866," by Lawrence Grossman

"Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam," by Robert W. Kenny

"Rhode Island's Pro Football Champions--1928 Providence Steam Roller," by John G. Hogrogian

1978 (vol. 37)

February

"Ambrose E. Burnside and Army Reform, 1850-1881," by Donna Thomas

"Covenants of Grace, Covenants of Wrath: Niantic-Puritan Relations in New England," by Glenn W. LaFantasie and Paul R. Campbell

May

"The Ku Klux Klan in Rhode Island," by Norman W. Smith

"Teaching the Three Rs--Eliza Smith, Schoolmistress," by Elizabeth Jane Townsend

"George Berkeley's Newport Experience," by Sheila Skemp

August

"Scattered to the Winds of Heaven--Narragansett Indians, 1676-1860," by Paul R. Campbell and Glenn W. LaFantasie

"Eleanor Marx in Providence," by Carl Gersuny

"Rhode Island and the Mexican War," by David L. Paulhus

November

"The Worlds of Roger Williams," by Sydney V. James

"John Howland: Pioneer in the Free School Movement," by Francis X. Russo

Index to Volume 37, 1978

1979 (vol. 38)

February

"Working Women: Images of Women at Work in Rhode Island, 1880-1925," by Kate Dunnigan, Helen Kebabian, Laura B.

Roberts and Maureen Taylor

May

"Tiverton's Fight for Religious Liberty, 1692-1724," by William G. McLoughlin

"Samuel Hopkins and the Revolutionary Antislavery Movement," by Joseph Conforti

"The Providence Visitor and Nativist Issues, 1916-1924," by Donna Thomas

August

"Murder of an Indian, 1638," by Glenn W. LaFantasie

"A British Account of the Siege of Rhode Island," edited by John F. Millar

"John Francis Smith, Heterodox Yankee Printer," by Carl Gersuny

November

"Isaac Ray and the Profession of Psychiatry," by Fred Jacobs

"Smallpox Vaccination: A Leap of Faith," by Joan Retsinas

Index to Volume 38, 1979

1980 (vol. 39)

February

"Seth Luther, Stonecarver of the Narragansett Bay," by Vincent F. Luti

From the Collections: "Rhode Island History Carved in Stone" (gravestones), by Robert P. Emlem

May

"Old Barriers and New Opportunities: Working Women in Rhode Island, 1900-1940," by Sharon Hartman Strom

"Uphill Battle: Lucius F. C. Garvin's Crusade for Political Reform," by Carl Gersuny

August

"Life on Relief in Rhode Island, 1934: A Contemporary View from the Field," edited by James T. Patterson

"Honor among Gentlemen: Herbert Pell, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Campaign of 1936," by Michael Steward Blayney

"Rochambeau's English Sword," by Robert P. Emlem

November

"Letters Home: Sergeant Charles E. Perkins in Virginia, 1862," edited by Ray Henshaw and Glenn W. LaFantasie

1981 (vol. 40)

February

"John Nicholas Brown: Tributes from the Young," by Anne S. K. Brown

"A Close Look at the Trade Card of Christopher Townsend, Jr.," by Robert P. Emlen

May

"A Colonial Fifth Maonarchist? John Clarke of Rhode Island," by Richard P. Greaves

"George H. Corliss: Engineer, Architect, Philanthropist.' by Robert W. Kenny

"In the World of Spirits: An Account of an Early ‘Afterlife’ Experience," by Harold Kemble

The Papers of Nathanael Greene, vol. 1, December 1766-December 1776. edited by Richard K. Showman, Margaret Cobb, and Robert E. McCarthy; The Papers of Nathanael Greene, vol. 2, January 1777-October 1778, edited by Richard K. Showman, Robert E. McCarthy, and Margaret Cobb, reviewed by Robert K. Wright Jr.

August

"Poor Relief, Local Finance, and Town Government in Eighteenth-Century Rhode Island," by Bruce C. Daniels

"Made to Order: Familiar Scenes on Rhode Island Bank Notes," by Ann LeVeque

J. Franklin Jameson and the Birth of the National Archives, 1906-1926, by Victor Gondos Jr., reviewed by Lester J. Cappon

Recreating the Historic House Interior, by William Seale, reviewed by Thomas G. Brennan

The Rhode Island Campaaign of 1778: Inauspicious Dawn of Alliance, by Paul F. Dearden, reviewed by Nathaniel N. Shipton

Peleg Burrough's Journal, 1778-1798: The Tiverton, R.I., Years of the Humbly Bold Baptist Minister, edited by Ruth Wilder Sherman, reviewed by William G. McLoughlin

November

Introduction, by John T. Duffy

Foreword, by Seymour B. Sarason

"Three Centuries of Care of the Mentally Disabled in Rhode Island and the Nation, 1650-1950," by David A. Rochefort

"Mental Retardation, State Policy, and the Ladd School, 1908-1970," by Eric C. Schneider

"The Parents Council for Retarded Children and Social Change in Rhode Island, 1951-1970, by Barbara Bair

1982 (vol. 41)

February

"Providence: A Century of Greatness, 1832-1932," by George H. Kellner and J. Stanley Lemons

"Hostages to Local History," by H. Nicholas Mulller 3rd

Artifacts and the American Past, by Thomas J. Schlereth, reviewed by Laura B. Roberts

From Memory to History: Using Oral Sources in Local Historical Research, by Barbara Allen and Lynwood Montell, reviewed by Valerie Quinney

Early Americans, by Carl Bridenbaugh, reviewed by Alden T. Vaughan

Settlement and Unsettlement in Early America: The Crisis of Political Legitimacy before the Revolution, by Kenneth A. Lockridge, reviewed by Bruce C. Daniels

William Ellery Channing: An Essay on the Liberal Spirit in America, by Andrew Delbanco, reviewed by William G. McLoughlin

May

"Lewis Hine's Photography and Reform in Rhode Island," by Stephen Victor

"The ‘Particular Courts’ of Local Government: Town Councils in Eighteenth-Century Rhode Island," by Bruce C. Daniels

A Search for Power: The "Weaker Sex" in Seventeenth-Century New England, by Lyle Koehler, reviewed by Laura Thatcher Ulrich

The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island and the African Slave Trade, 1700-1807, by Jay Coughtry, reviewed by Edward M. Cook Jr.

So Few the Brave; Rhode Island Continentals, 1775-1783, by Anthony Walker, reviewed by Albert T. Klyberg

August

"The Earliest Prints and Paintings of New England Indians," by William S. Simmons

"The Threat of Radicalism: Seward's Candidacy and the Rhode Island Gubernatorial Election of 1860," by James L. Huston

Samuel Hopkins and the New Divinity Movement: Calvinism, the Congregational Ministry, and Reform in New England between the Great Awakenings, by Joseph A. Conforti, reviewed by Harry S. Stout

Old Light on Separate Ways: The Narragansett Diary of Joseph Fish, 1765-1776, edited by William S. Simmons and Cheryl L. Simmons, reviewed by James P. Ronda

November

Editor's Note

Introduction, by David J. Rothman

"Custody and Control: The Rhode Island State Hospital for Mental Diseases, 1870-1970," by Janet Golden and Eric C. Schneider

"‘The Full Light of This Dawn’: Congressman John Fogarty and the Historical Cycle of Community Mental Health Policy in Rhode Island," by Barbara Bair

"Days of Darkness and Hope at the State Hospital: A Photographer's Perspective," by Salvatore Mancini

1983 (vol. 42)

February

"A Senator of Principle: Some Correspondence between LeBaron Bradford Colt and William Howard Taft," by Leonard Schlup

"The Great Textile Strike of 1934: Illuminating Rhode Island History in the Thirties," by James F. Findlay

"Antifederalism and the Perils of Homogenized History: A Review Essay," by John P. Kaminski

May

"Margaret Fuller's Row at the Greene Street School: Early Female Education in Providence, 1837-1839," by Judith Strong Albert

"Alfred E. Smith's Rhode Island Revolution: The Election of 1928," by John K. White

"From the Collection: An Ordinary Chair," by Robert P. Emlen

Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750, by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, reviewed by Elaine F. Crane

Adjustment to Empire: The New England Colonies, 1675-1715, by Richard R. Johnson, reviewed by David S. Lovejoy

August

"Images of Moses Brown," by Nina Zannieri

"Impoverished Politics: The New Deal's Impact on City Government in Providence, Rhode Island," by David L. Davies

The Providence Journal: 150 Years, by Garrett D. Byrnes and Charles H. Spilman, reviewed by J. Stanley Lemons

November

"Synthesizing Rhode Island History: Problems, Approaches, and Opportunities," by William G. McLoughlin

"‘Nature Caught at the Twinkling of an Eye’" The Daguerreotype in Providence," by Maureen Taylor

Providence: A Pictorial History, by Patrick T. Conley and Paul R. Campbell, reviewed by Howard P. Chudacoff

Buildings on Paper: Rhode Island Architectural Drawings, 1825-1945, by William H. Jordy, Christopher P. Monkhouse, and contributors, reviewed by Richard Candee

Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England, 1500-1643, by Neal Salisbury, reviewed by Karen Ordahl Kupperman

Volume 42 Index

1984 (vol. 43)

February

"The Three Rank System of Land Distribution in Colonial Swansea, Massachusetts," by John Raymond Hall

"North by South: The Two Lives of Richard James Arnold," by Charles Hoffmann and Tess Hoffmann

Rhode Island: The Independent State, by George H. Kellner and J. Stanley Lemons, reviewed by William D. Metz

May

"A View of Providence: The Explication of a Landscape Painting," by Robert P. Emlen

"Another View of Providence: Archaeological Investigation of the Old Stone Square Site," by Myron O. Stachiw

Yankee Enterprise: The Rise of the American System of Manufactures, edited by Otto Mayr and Robert C. Post, reviewed by Thomas E. Leary

The Afro-Yankees: Providence's Black Community in the Antebellum Era, by Robert J. Cottrol, reviewed by Jay Coughtry

August

"Jeffry Watsons's Diary, 1740-1784: Family, Community, Religion, and Politics in Colonial Rhode Island," by Edward M. Cook Jr.

November

"Rhode Island: From Classical Democracy to British Province," by Sydney V. James

"Rhode Island Renegade: The Enigma of Joshua Tefft," by Colin C. Calloway

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1985 (vol. 44)

February

"Freedom of Religion in Rhode Island: Aquidneck Island's Reluctant Revolutionaries, 1638-1660," by Sheila L. Skemp

"From Watt to Allen to Corliss: One Hundred Years of LettingOff Steam," by Charles Hoffmann and Tess Hoffmann

The Coming of Industrial Order: Town and Factory Life in Rural Massachusetts, 1810-1860, by Jonathan Prude, reviewed by Milton Cantor

Rhode Island: A Bibliography of Its History, edited by Roger N. Parks, reviewed by Walter Nebiker

May

"‘A Determination to Labor . . .’: Female Antislavery Activity in Rhode Island," by Deborah Bingham Van Broekhoven

"The Providence School Board Reform Movement, 1898-1924," by Patrick Harshbarger

"From the Collections: An Embossed Leather Cockade by Providence Engraver William Hamlin," by Robert P. Emlin

The Antimasonic Party in the United States, 1826-1843, by William Preston Vaughn, reviewed by Steven C. Bullock

Dissent and Conformity on Narragansett Bay: The Colonial Rhode Island Town, by Bruce C. Daniels, reviewed by Sheila L. Skemp

August

"The Broken Bond: Divorce in Providence County, 1749-1809," by Sheldon S. Cohen

"Building the Democratic Party: Black Voting in Providence in the 1930s, by Norma LaSalle Daoust

To Starve the Army at Pleasure: Continental Army Administration and American Political Culture, 1775-1783, by E. Wayne Carp, reviewed by Sylvia R. Frey

Let Virtue Be a Guide to Thee: Needlework in the Education of Rhode Island Women, 1730-1830, by Betty Ring, reviewed by Barbara Luck

November

"Ethnicity and Politics in Rhode Island: The Career of Frank Licht," by Walter H. Conser Jr.

"Black Pauper Burial Records: Providence, Rhode Island, 1777-1831," by Jamie Coughtry and Jay Coughtry

"Nicholas Brown to Isaac Backus: On Bringing Rhode Island College to Providence," by Richard Luftglass

Congress at Princeton: Being the Letters of Charles Thomson to Hannah Thomson, June-October 1783, edited by Eugene R. Sheridan and John M. Murrin, reviewed by E. Wayne Carp

Volume 44 Index

1986 (vol. 45)

February

"The Making of a Hero: Samuel Slater and the Arkwright Frames," by James L. Conrad Jr.

"A Centennial View of the John Brown House," by Robert P. Emlen

"Irving Fain and the Fair Housing Movement in Rhode Island, 1958-1970," by Joseph Conforti

Rhode Island Miscellany: "Reflections: On Newport in the 1760s," by Elaine Forman Crane

May

"Ten Turning Points in Rhode Island History," by William G.McLoughlin

"Rhode Island's Ten Turning Points," by J. Stanley Lemons

Samuel Slater and the Origins of the American Textile Industry, by Barbara M. Tucker, reviewed by James L. Conrad Jr.

Rhode Island Miscellany: "Stardust Memories: Frank Evans Seagrave and Halley's Comet--1910," by David A. Huestis

August

"The South Kingstown Planters: Country Gentry in Colonial Rhode Island," by Christian McBurney

"The Shuberts and the Syndicate: The Independent Theatre Comes to Providence," by Stephen B. Pollock and Don B. Wilmeth

Rhode Island Miscellany: "The Rose Collection," by Ruth Wallis Herndon

November

"The Early Years of the Rhode Island Birth Control League," by Christine E. Nicoll and Robert G. Weisbord

"The Bonds of Friendship: Sarah Osborn of Newport and the Reverend Joseph Fish of North Stonington, 1743-1779," by Barbara A. Lacey

Volume 45 Index

1987 (vol. 46)

February

"Working Lives: An Oral History of Rhode Island Labor," part 1:

Introduction, by Paul M. Buhle

"Time Long Passed, 1890-1928"

"Depression Rhode Island, 1929-1940"

May

"Working Lives: An Oral History of Rhode Island Labor," part 2:

"Entering the Modern Era, 1940-1960"

"Working People in the Postindustrial Age, 1961-Present"

"Resources for the Study of Rhode Island Labor: A

Bibliographic Essay," by Scott Molloy

"Pawtucket: Summer, 1952," by Norma Jenckes (poem)

August

"Rhode Island and the American Nation," by Albert T. Klyberg

"A Day in the Life of Roger Williams," by Glenn W. LaFantasie

Fall River Outrage: Life, Murder, and Justice in Early Industrial New England, by David Richard Kasserman, reviewed by Scott Molloy

November 1987 not published

1988 (vol. 46, continued)

February, May, and August 1988 not published

November

"Zachariah Allen and the Architecture of Industrial Paternalism," by Richard E. Greenwood

"Twentieth-Century Rhode Island Town Government History: A Survey of Areas for Research," by William M. Ferraro

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1989 (vol. 47)

February

"The Newport Asylum for the Poor: A Successful Nineteenth-Century Institutional Response to Social Dependency," by Anthony S. Nicolosi

"The Resort of Pure Fashion: Newport, Rhode Island, 1890-1914," by Barbara A. Schreier and Michele Majer

Rhode Island Miscellany: "The Men's Bars of Rhode Island," By Edward Widmer

May

"Newport's Stamp Act Riots: Another Look," by Sheila Skemp

"A Crisis in Rhode Island Mental Health Care: The Closing of Butler Hospital in 1955," by Valerie Quinney

"Rhode Island's Invisible Empire: A Demographic Glimpse into the Ku Klux Klan," by Joseph W. Sullivan

August

"Roger Williams and John Winthrop: The Rise and Fall of an Extraordinary Friendship," by Glenn W. LaFantasie

"Why Is There a Kent County?" by Sydney V. James

November

Introduction, by Kris Van Den Bossche

"War and Other Reminiscences," by George Bradford Carpenter edited by Kris Van Den Bossche

Volume 47 Index

1990 (vol. 48)

February

"Another Pattern of Urban Living: Multifamily Housing in Providence, 1890-1930," by Patricia Raub

"Commercial Progress versus Local Rights: Turnpike Building in Northwestern Rhode Island in the 1790s," by Daniel P. Jones

May

"Prosperity at the Wharves: Providence Shipping, 1780-1850," by Paul G. Bourcier

"The Great Gale of 1815: Artifactual Evidence of Rhode Island's First Hurricane," by Robert P. Emlen

August

"Filling the Providence Cove: Image in the Evolution of Urban Form," by Michael Holleran

"Waterfronts as a Key to City-Center Redevelopment," by Chester E. Smolski

November

"Metamorphosis of the Providence Waterfront: A Geographic Perspective," by Gerald H. Krausse

"Life on the Bay: Logs of the Jamestown and Newport Ferries," by Stewart P. Schneider

Volume 48 Index

1991 (vol. 49)

February

"The Independent Woman: Rhode Island's First Woman Legislator," by Emily Stier Adler and J. Stanley Lemons

"Anne Hutchinson Reconsidered," by William G. McLoughlin

From the Collections: "The Frances E. Henley Collection," by Denise J. Bastien

May

"Ship's Captain, Shop's Cotton: Wilber Kelly and Early American Industrialization," by Doug Reynolds

"Natural Run and Artificial Falls: Waterpower and the Blackstone Canal," by Richard E. Greenwood

"Rhode Island's Blackstone River State Park," by Ginny Leslie

"Preserving History in the Blackstone River Valley," by Edward F. Sanderson

"A Look at the Sources: Why Collect?" by Cynthia Bendroth

August/November

"Vanishing Rhode Island," by Paul M. Buhle

Index to Volume 49

1992 (vol. 50)

February

"The Uses of Law and the Gaspee Affair," by Neil L. York

"Rhode Island and the War of 1812," by Harvey Strum

May

"A Silver Lining: Twenty-Five Years of the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts," by Frank Muhly

August

"No Tempest in a Teapot: The Dorr Rebellion in National Perspective," by Patrick T. Conley

November

"On and Off the Record: Town Clerks as Interpreters of Rhode Island History," by Ruth Wallis Herndon

"‘A Giant of Embodied Conscience’: Joseph M. Coldwell and the Socialist Party in Rhode Island," by Joseph W. Sullivan

Index to Volume 50

1993 (vol. 51)

February

"Becoming a City of Homes: The Suburbanization of Cranston, 1850-1910," by Peter Baldwin

"Housing the Poor: The Early Years of Public Housing in Providence," by Norma LaSalle Daoust

Rhode Island Miscellany: "The Lamson Oil Story," by Lowell S. Lisker

May

"Providence: The Confident Years, 1890-1920," by William G. McLoughlin

August

"Encouraging Faithful Domestic Servants: Race, Deviance, and Social Control in Providence," by Jane Lancaster

"The Role of Women in the Dorr Rebellion," by Ronald P. Formisano

November

"A Candidate Speaks in Rhode Island: Abraham Lincoln Visits Providence and Woonsocket, 1860," by Frank J. Williams

"Samuel Gorton's Commentary on the Lord's Prayer," by Philip F. Gura

"Revolutionary Cumberland: A Note on a Historical Controversy," by Raymond Palin

Index to Volume 51

1994 (vol. 52)

February

"Cast Out from the ‘City upon a Hill’: Antinomian Exiles in Rhode Island, 1638-1650," by Raymond D. Irwin

"Gould Island Naval Air Facility and Aerial Torpedo Bombing," by Richard A. Gould

From the Collections: "Images of Rhode Island: The Photographer's Art," by Denise J. Bastien

May

"Religion, Education, and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Rhode Island: Sarah Wheaten Osborn, 1714-1796," by Sheryl A. Kujawa

"‘The Rhode Island Pillar’: Rhode Island Newspapers and the Ratification of the Constitution," by Carol Sue Humphrey

"Rhode Island and the Embargo of 1807," by Harvey Strum

August

"The Automobile Comes to Rhode Island," by J. Stanley Lemons

"Burrillville: A Town on the Blackstone?" by Albert T. Klyberg

November

"‘Was She Clothed with the Rents Paid for These Wretched Rooms?’: Elizabeth Buffum Chace, Lillie Chace Wyman, and Upper-Class Advocacy for Women Factory Operatives in Gilded Age Rhode Island," by Elizabeth C. Stevens

Index to Volume 52

1995 (vol. 53)

February

"Landed versus Paper Property in Rhode Island, 1781-1790," by Thomas S. Allen

"Trinity Rep: Creating a Professional Theater in Providence," by Milton Stanzler

May

"Frederick Law Olmsted and His Firm's Private Clients: An Unexamined Facet of Olmsted's Approach to Nature in the City," by Martha L. Werenfels

"George Sears Greene: Gettysburg's Other Second-Day Hero," by Eric Ethier

August

"Matthew Harkins: Catholic Bishop and Educator," by Patrick T. Conley

"Combating Tuberculosis in Schoolchildren: Providence's Open-Air Schools," by Richard A. Meckel

November

"An Eighteenth-Century Rhode Island Adventurer," by Richard C. Cole

"‘Let Me Chat a Little’: Letter Writing in Rhode Island before the Revolution," by Konstantin Dierks

Index to Volume 53

1996 (vol. 54)

February

"Battling the Enemies of Liberty: The Rise and Fall of the Rhode Island Know-Nothing Party," by Michael A. Simoncelli

"A Unionless General Strike: The Rhode Island Ten-Hour Movement of 1873," by Carl Gersuny

May

"The Last Years of the Rhode Island Slave Trade," by Christy Nadalin

"‘Every Shout a Cannon Ball’: The IWW and Urban Disorders in Providence, 1712-1914," by Joseph W. Sullivan

August

"Localism in Portsmouth and Foster during the Revolutionary and Founding Periods," by William M. Ferraro

From the Collections: "‘Not Just Another Pretty Face,’" by Linda Eppich

November

"Federal Hill House: Its Place in Providence and the Settlement Movement," by J. Ellyn Des Jardins

"The International Institute of Rhode Island," by Joan Retsinas

Index to Volume 54

1997 (vol. 55)

February

Reprint of La Survivance: A Companion to the Exhibit at the Museum of Work & Culture, Woonsocket, Rhode Island, by Anita Rafael

May

"The Horrors of Competition: Innovation and Paradox in Rhode Island's Jewelry Industry, 1860-1914," by Philip Scranton

"Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Bring Order to Providence: The Introduction of Scientific Management at the New England Butt Company, 1912-13," by Jane Lancaster

August

"Collecting, Preserving, and Sharing Rhode Island History: 175 Years," by Albert T. Klyberg

"Historical Sketch of the Society," by Amos Perry

"On Admitting Women to the Society: An Address by William D. Ely," by Rick Stattler

"The Mind's Eye," by Albert T. Klyberg

November

"Romanists in the Land of Roger Williams: The Diocese of Providence Observes Its 125th Anniversary," by Robert W. Hayman

"The Growth of a Catholic Educational System in Providence and the Protestant Reaction, 1848-1876," by David Gartner

Index to Volume 55

1998 (vol. 56)

February

"The Problem of Poverty: Public Relief and Reform in Postbellum Providence," by Andrew Morris

"Tidemills of Rhode Island," by Walter E. Minchinton

Rhode Island Miscellany: "The State of Rhode Island," by Traugott Bromme

May

"Developing an Esprit de Corps: Efforts to Reform the

Teaching Profession in Rhode Island, 1870-1900," by David

A. Farbman

"Young Luther in Debt," by Carl Gersuny

August

"Worlds Apart: Puritan Perceptions of the Native American during the Pequot War," by Timothy L. Wood

"Roger Williams's Key: Ethnography or Mythology?" by Jennifer Reid

From the Collections: "Zachariah Allen Reclaims the Key for Rhode Island," by Rick Stattler

November

Introduction, by William McKenzie Woodward

Rhode Island Boundaries, 1636-1936, by John Hutchins Cady;

Index to Volume 56

1999 (vol. 57)

February

"The Providence Washington Insurance Company: Two Hundred Years," by Robert L. Sherman

May

"Henry Marchant's Journal, 1771-1772," by John N. Cole

August/November

"‘By the Pens of Females’: Girls' Diaries from Rhode Island, 1788-1821," by Jane Lancaster

Index to Volume 57

2000 (vol. 58)

February

"Woonsocket's B'nai Israel Synagogue," by George M. Goodwin

"Wilsonian Moralist: Senator Peter G. Gerry and the Crusade for the League of Nations," by Leonard Schlup

May

"Roger Williams and His Place in History: The Background and Last Quarter Century," by Anthony O. Carlino

August

"‘The Path of Duty Plain’: Samuel Hopkins, Sarah Osborn, and Revolutionary Newport," by Sheryl A. Kujawa

"‘She Hath Left My Bed and Board’: Runaway Wives in Rhode Island, 1790-1810," by Sarah Leavitt

November

Introduction, by Joseph Lee Boyle

"The Israel Angell Diary, 1 October 1777-28 February 1788"; edited by Joseph Lee Boyle

Index to Volume 58

2001 (vol. 59)

February

"Public Need and Public Health: The Early Years of the Providence District Nursing Association," by Cynthia Comery Ferguson

"Trouble in Labor's Eden: Labor Conflict in the Quarries of Westerly, 1871-1922," by Anthony M. Lementowicz Jr.

May

Introduction, by Robert W. Hayman

"Six Decades in These Plantations," by Charles Carroll

August

"Frances Whipple and the Wampanoag: A Nineteenth-Century New England Factory Magazine," by Sarah C. O'Dowd

"Rhode Island's Controversial General: Nathanael Greene and the Continental Congress, 1776-1780," by William P. Leeman

November

"‘I Would Have Made Out Very Poorly Had It Not Been for Her’: The Life and Work of Christiana Bannister, Hair Doctress and Philanthropist," by Jane Lancaster

"Writings on Rhode Island History, 1999-2000," by Roger Parks

Index to Volume 59

2002 (vol. 60)

Winter

"Support Unseen: Rhode Island and the Vietnam War, 1965-1973," by Andrew J. Huebner

"‘Not Forgotten in Their Affliction’: Irish Famine Relief from Rhode Island, 1847," by Harvey Strum

Spring

"Italian Fascism and the Italian Americans of Providence," by Stefano Luconi

"The Providence Marine Corps of Artillery in the Civil War," by Cynthia Comery Ferguson

Rhode Island Miscellany: "350,000 Bits of Paper," by Irving C. Sheldon

Summer

"Popular Sovereignty or Public Anarchy? America Debates the Dorr Rebellion," by Patrick T. Conley

Fall

"Rhode Island and the Slave Trade," by J. Stanley Lemons

"Writings on Rhode Island History, 2001," by Roger Parks

Index to Volume 60

2003 (vol. 61)

Winter/Spring

"So Proudly They Served: Rhode Island Waves in World War II," by Evelyn M. Cherpak

From the Collections: "‘We Are in the NAVY!’: A Letter from Northampton

Summer

"Water Rights in Rhode Island, 1790-1840: The Commodification of the Landscape," by Frederic P. Fitts

"Railroad Development in Rhode Island during the Nineteenth Century," by Stewart P. Schneider

Fall

"John Brown's India Point," by Caroline Frank

Index to Volume 61

2004 (vol. 62)

Winter/Spring

"Ethnic Shops versus Chain Stores: Retailing among Italian Americans in the Interwar Years," by Stefano Luconi

"The Battle of Chepachet: An Eyewitness Account," introduced and edited by Jane Lancaster

Summer

"‘What Do You Do With A Disaster?’": Providence and the Hurricane of 1938," by Aram Goudsouzian

Fall

"The Battle of Rhode Island, 29 August 1778: A Victory for the Patriots,” by Patrick T. Conley

“Writings on Rhode Island History, 2002-2003,” by Roger Parks

Index to Volume 62

2005 (vol. 63)

Winter/Spring

“‘I Go into Detail Mainly on Account of Posterity’: Extracts from the World War II Diary of Helen Clarke Grimes,” edited by Jane Lancaster, annotated by Jane Lancaster and Elizabeth C. Stevens

Summer

Introduction, by Paul Buhle

“The Celebrity Club: Social Change in Postwar Providence,” by Jason McGill

Fall

“Peleg Gifford’s Tale,” by Cherry Fletcher Baamberg

Index to Volume 63

2006 (vol. 64)

Winter/Spring

Introduction, by Elizabeth C. Stevens

“Nathanael Greene: An Appreciation,” by Dennis M. Conrad

“The History of the Nathanael Greene Papers,” by Richard K. Showman

“The Nathanael Greene Papers Projecct, 1972-2005,” by Elizabeth C. Stevens

Summer

“John La Farge’s Windows for the Caldwell Sisters of Newport,” by James L. Yarnall

Appendix: “John La Farge’s Decorative Works in Rhode Island”

“Reconsidering Rhode Island History,” by Joanne Pope Melish

Fall

“Books behind Bars: The Rhode Island Commission to Encourage Morality in Youth, 1956-1964,” by Sarah Y. Feldman

Index to Volume 64

2007 (vol. 65)

Winter/Spring

“‘The Lengthened Shadow of One Man’: E. Benjamin Andrews and Brown University, 1889-1898,” by Theresa Ross

Summer

“Economy and Isolation in Rhode Island Poorhouses, 1820- 1850,” by Gabriel J. Loiacono “Reconstructing the Olney’s Lane Riot: Another Look at Race and Class in Jacksonian Rhode Island,” by Joseph W. Sullivan

Fall

“The Emergence of Child Welfare at the State Home and School, Rhode Island’s Public Orphanage,” by Sandra L. Enos

Index to Volume 65