Fashion in the Times of Sylvia DeWolf Ostrander (1841-1925)
Join the John Brown House Museum, a museum of the Rhode Island Historical Society, on Thursday, March 13, for Fashion … Continue reading Fashion in the Times of Sylvia DeWolf Ostrander (1841-1925)
Valley Talks: St. Ann’s: Towers of Faith of Family with Paul Bourget
Valley Talks, a series of biweekly historical lectures, concludes on Sunday, March 23 at 1:30 p.m. at the Museum of … Continue reading Valley Talks: St. Ann’s: Towers of Faith of Family with Paul Bourget
Valley Talks: French-Canadian Quilts in Rhode Island with Professor Linda Welters
Valley Talks, a series of biweekly historical lectures, continues Sunday, March 9 at 1:30 p.m. at the Museum of Work … Continue reading Valley Talks: French-Canadian Quilts in Rhode Island with Professor Linda Welters
Valley Talks: Fleeced: Unraveling the History of Wool and War with author and curator Madelyn Shaw
Valley Talks, a series of biweekly historical lectures, continues Sunday, January 26, at 1:30pm at the Museum of Work & … Continue reading Valley Talks: Fleeced: Unraveling the History of Wool and War with author and curator Madelyn Shaw
Valley Talks: With These Hands with photographer Steve Dunwell
Valley Talks, a series of biweekly historical lectures, continues Sunday, February 23 at 1:30 p.m. at the Museum of Work … Continue reading Valley Talks: With These Hands with photographer Steve Dunwell
Valley Talks: The Birth and Death of a Textile Mill with genealogist Bonnie Wade Mucia
Valley Talks, a series of biweekly historical lectures, continues Sunday, February 9 at 1:30 p.m. at the Museum of Work … Continue reading Valley Talks: The Birth and Death of a Textile Mill with genealogist Bonnie Wade Mucia
“The Founding of the U.S. Navy, from London’s Perspective” – A Lecture with Evan Wilson
We are taught as schoolchildren that the great achievement of American independence was defeating the most powerful empire and the … Continue reading “The Founding of the U.S. Navy, from London’s Perspective” – A Lecture with Evan Wilson
Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery Book Talk with Seth Rockman
The Rhode Island Historical Society will host historian Seth Rockman for a talk on his latest book, Plantation Goods: A … Continue reading Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery Book Talk with Seth Rockman
Reading Roger Williams Book Talk
Join the Rhode Island Historical Society on Sunday, September 22nd, at 1 p.m at the Aldrich House for a conversation … Continue reading Reading Roger Williams Book Talk
Smithsonian Curator Talk, “Invention and Innovation in Asian Pacific America” with Dr. Theodore Gonzalves
The Rhode Island Historical Society, in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, will present a free talk … Continue reading Smithsonian Curator Talk, “Invention and Innovation in Asian Pacific America” with Dr. Theodore Gonzalves