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"Women’s History"

Warrior Women with Lupita Nyong’o Screening

Join the Rhode Island Historical Society and the Community College of Rhode Island on Thursday, March 9 at 6pm for … Continue reading Warrior Women with Lupita Nyong’o Screening

VIRTUAL: “UNLADYLIKE2020” Film Screening and Panel Discussion

In honor of the centennial of women’s suffrage in 2020, UNLADYLIKE2020 presents the comprehensive biographies of 26 bold American women … Continue reading VIRTUAL: “UNLADYLIKE2020” Film Screening and Panel Discussion

VIRTUAL: Annual Goff Lecture: “Winning the Vote with Words” with Claire Jerry

The Rhode Island Historical Society is proud to have Claire Jerry, Curator of Politic History at the National Museum of … Continue reading VIRTUAL: Annual Goff Lecture: “Winning the Vote with Words” with Claire Jerry

VIRTUAL: “Founding Mothers: The Verin Case and the Liberty of Conscience in Early Rhode Island”

Joshua and Jane Verin were some of the first colonists in the settlement of Providence. Religious meetings happened in Roger … Continue reading VIRTUAL: “Founding Mothers: The Verin Case and the Liberty of Conscience in Early Rhode Island”

Mar 29, 2018
  • artist
  • charlotte perkins gilman
  • feminist
  • novelist
  • poet
  • social reform
  • socialist
  • Women's History
  • writer

Life is a verb, not a noun.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a prominent American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer … Continue reading Life is a verb, not a noun.

Mar 8, 2018
  • women
  • Women's History
  • World War I

She did more than make doughnuts…

she rocked a gas mask like a boss!!! The Rhode Island Historical Society’s latest display at the Arcade building in … Continue reading She did more than make doughnuts…

Mar 22, 2017
  • Elleanor Eldridge
  • Frances Whipple Green
  • Mary Elizabeth Robinson Research Center
  • Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge
  • providence
  • rhode island historical society
  • rihs
  • Women's History
  • womens history month

“No MAN Ever Would Have Been Treated So”: Elleanor Eldridge

Celebrating Women’s History Month by way of an entrepreneur’s 233rd birthday

Apr 5, 2013
  • authors
  • divorce
  • Dorr Rebellion
  • providence
  • rhode island
  • suffrage
  • Thomas Wilson Dorr
  • women authors
  • Women's History
  • women's rights

Faith & Freedom Friday:A Petticoated Dorrite

In a time when women were rarely published and could not vote, Catherine Read Williams was a self-supporting author and … Continue reading Faith & Freedom Friday:A Petticoated Dorrite

Mar 18, 2011
  • diaries
  • Women's History
  • World War I
  • YMCA Volunteers

Somewhere in France…part 2

After the war, Miss Bray compiled notes from her diaries and letters home into a typed manuscript now owned by … Continue reading Somewhere in France…part 2

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