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Ever since my book, The Seventh Rhode Island Infantry in the Civil War was published by McFarland in 2008, it opened a literal floodgate of material relating to the Seventh …
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The stock market crash of 1929 sent America into the throes of the Great Depression.  The levels of unemployment and suffering among ordinary Americans were unlike anything that had ever …
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Mary Francis Xavier Warde was the American foundress of the Sisters of Mercy (RSM). Born in Ireland in 1810 to fairly prosperous parents, she was orphaned in her teens. At …
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The War of the American Revolution was in large part a young man’s war.

At the beginnings of the conflict, many well-educated young men who were descendants …
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A chapter in Henrietta Overing Auchmuty’s life has been overlooked by history. Perhaps she would’ve wanted it that way, for it is a story of romance turned into heartbreak …
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[Editor’s note:  The author of this article, Lynne Heinzmann, is the author of Frozen Voices, a wonderful new historical novel about the sinking of the SS Larchmont. She does a …
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The Korean War was raging during my college years and I was certain, on graduation, that I would be drafted into the army. I reduced my options to one of …
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At the dawn of the 19th century, the role of women in Rhode Island politics was non-existent and the idea of extending suffrage to women was virtually inconceivable. Throughout the …
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Many Rhode Islanders are familiar with the sinking of the U-853 off Block Island in May 1945 at the very end of World War II. German U-boats had been …
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On May 27, 1791, Thomas Mount, a white man born in New Jersey, was hanged in Little Rest (now Kingston). Hanging was never particularly common in Rhode Island. What makes …
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