Spring 2023 Newsletter

It all started in Providence with Seril Dodge, a clockmaker and silversmith from Pomfret, Conn., and his nephew Nehemiah Dodge. Seril’s shop, near the corner of North Main and Thomas Streets in Providence, was one of the first in Rhode Island to sell jewelry. When Seril returned to Pomfret in the late 1790s, he turned […]

Fall 2022 Newsletter

Before the American Revolution, Britain dominated the worldwide trade in enslaved human beings. In a move intended to strike an economic blow to Great Britain, the American colonies agreed to stop participation in the slave trade. In April of 1776, the colonies resolved to stop trading with Great Britain and all of its territories, and […]

Spring 2022 Newsletter

Before the American Revolution, Britain dominated the worldwide trade in enslaved human beings. In a move intended to strike an economic blow to Great Britain, the American colonies agreed to stop participation in the slave trade. In April of 1776, the colonies resolved to stop trading with Great Britain and all of its territories, and […]

Fall 2021 Newsletter

Who was Mary Williams? If you live in Rhode Island, you know who Roger Williams was. But you probably know little or nothing about his wife Mary, who lived in a time when the vast majority of women left no trace of themselves other than their children. View Full PDF Newsletter

Spring 2021 Newsletter

Stone heaps, or spiritual symbols? One of the most polarized debates in the world of archaeology today concerns ceremonial stone landscapes, groups of stone structures built by Native Americans for religious purposes. Are they spiritual places that must be preserved as the cultural heritage of Indigenous people? Or are many actually fields of stone heaps […]