Join the Newport Historical Society for a talk with Dr. Allison Horrocks on Rhode Island's Suffrage Centennial: From Radical Social Movements to Ratification, on Thursday, April 30th, 2020 at 5:30pm at the Leatherman Program Center, 82 Touro Street, Newport, RI. The year 2020 marks the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment. As another election […]
Join the Newport Historical Society for a talk with author Tom Schachtman on The Founding Fortunes: How the Wealthy Paid for and Profited from America’s Revolution on Thursday, March 26, 2020 at 5:30pm at 82 Touro Street, Newport, RI. Schachtman makes the case as to how the disparity between social classes affected the Revolution, and […]
Join the Newport Historical Society for a talk with Professor Serena Zabin, author of The Boston Massacre: A Family History on Thursday, March 12, 2020 at 5:30pm at the Leatherman Program Center, 82 Touro Street, Newport, RI. Zabin’s The Boston Massacre delivers an indelible new slant on iconic American Revolutionary history. The story of the […]
