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Our Speakers Bureau, EnRICHment Opportunities, brings humanities programs to public audiences throughout Rhode Island. Ideal for public libraries, historical societies, and community centers, the programs offered through EnRICHment Opportunities include lectures, discussions, performances, workshops, and slide presentations on a wide range of humanities topics focusing on Rhode Island history and culture.
To book an EnRICHment Speaker, contact our office at 401-273-2250.
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EnRICHment Opportunities Overview
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The Legacy of Corruption in the Ocean State
Rough Diamonds: The Providence Grays and the Brutal World of Early Major League Baseball
Annie Smith Peck: From "Downstreet" to "Peck's Peak"
Azoreans in America
The Portuguese Discoveries
Portuguese-American Stories
Folklife in Rhode Island
From Bullrakes to Clambakes
The Invisible World: Supernatural Encounters in Rhode Island
New Guinea and the Negro Elections in Pawtuxet Village
Orchards in the Ocean State
Vampires and Death in New England, 1784-1892
Elephants in Rhode Island
Frozen Glory: The Secret Life of War Memorials
Quakers and Slavery in Colonial Rhode Island
The Poems of Tom Chandler
Rhode Island's Naval Heritage, 1776-2006
American Storytellers of the 19th and 20th Centuries
American Wordsmiths of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Black Baseball in Rhode Island, 1883-1949
Race and Sport: The Integration of Baseball in Rhode Island
Protecting Rhode Island's Children: Claims Making and Child Cruelty
Out to Pasture: The History of Rhode Island Dairy Farms
Hood, Nancy (see also, Rick Keller)
I've Got a Song: A Living History of the McCarthy Era in New England
Little Rhody and the Other 49
Rhode Islandese: An Informal Presentation of the Language of the Nation's Smallest State
The Right to Crow: A Look at Rhode Island's Firsts, Bests, and Uniques
The Historic Armories of Rhode Island
Ladd Observatory, 1891 - Time-Keeping Center
Viva Italiana: A Celebration of Italian-American Musical Heritage
Stars of the Swing Era: From New England to National Fame
Frank Sinatra: Big Band and Early Solo Days
Man With A Horn: Cornetist Bobby Hackett
Keller, Rick (see also, Nancy Hood)
I've Got a Song: A Living History of the McCarthy Era in New England
The Last Voyage of the Slave Ship Charlotte: Discoveries of an Archivist
Public Art Today: Creating a Public Through Collaborative Art Installations
Elleanor Eldridge: Justice and Injustice in 19th Century Rhode Island
Reading Rhode Island Girls' Lives in 1799: Diaries as Historical Records
Weren't They Cheaper by the Dozen? The Gilbreths and Scientific Management in Rhode Island
I Should've Been an Acrobat: Charlotte Perkins Gilman in Flight from Depression
I Must Work, I Live for That Alone: Elizabeth Prophet, Sculptress of Color
The Home Front in World War II Rhode Island
Christiana Bannister: From Shampoos to Shelters
Emily Post: By Motor to the Golden Gate
In Search Of Madame Eliza Jumel
Leveillee, Alan
Ancient Indian Peoples of New England: An Archaeological Perspective
How Do Archaeologists Know How Old Something Is?
Fantastic Archaeology: Stories of Frauds, Fakes, and Facts in New England
The Charles Fortes Museum School and Site Specific Education
Fighting Sprawl in Rhode Island
Stone Walls of South County
U.S. Women and World War II
The Narragansett Bay: A Photographic Essay
Immigrants of Itri, Italy---Knightsville, Rhode Island
Days of Darkness, Days of Hope
Industrial Revolution (Nature to Profit: The Transformation of the Blackstone Valley)
RIP: Transforming Violence, Cultivating Community
Forests of Southern New England
Poe's Fiancee: Sarah Helen Whitman
Rhode Island's Other Woman Reformer: Frances Harriet Whipple Green McDougall
Haunted History in Rhode Island: Ghosts in Our Midst
How Providence Became a City Because of the Hardscrabble and Snowtown Race Riots of 1824 and 1831
The Life of William J. Brown and Race in 19th-Century Rhode Island
Lydia Maria Child: Abolitionist and the First Woman in the Republic, a 19th-Century Abolitionist
The Life of William J. Brown and Race in 19th-Century Rhode Island
Lydia Maria Child: Abolitionist and the First Woman in the Republic, a 19th-Century Abolitionist
Defenses of Narragansett Bay in World War II
Hessian Occupation of Newport and Rhode Island, 1776-1779
Shaker, Thomas M. (*Tom)
A History of Rhode Island Diners (with Daniel Zilka)
Ocean State Swing: A History of Rhode Island Jazz
Smith, D. Salem (*Deb)
Medical Malpractice: How We Grieve and How We Heal
The State of Our State During the War in Iraq
King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict
The Blizzard of '78
5 New Englanders Survival at Sea
West Side Stories: Tales from Providence's West End