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Newport This Week: Lease Signed to Stay in Brick Market

February 20, 2025

By: Philip Cozzolino, Newport This Week The Newport Historical Society will stay in its Brick Market location after signing a 30-year lease with the ...

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Rhode Island Monthly: Inside Two New Museums Dedicated to Memorializing Rhode Island’s African American History

February 20, 2025

By: Ellen Liberman, Rhode Island Monthly   At thirteen, Randall Ashe was a skinny kid from South Providence on the precipice of his career as ...

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History Bytes: How Jewish Was Aaron Lopez’s Mercantile Operation?

December 17, 2024

This guest post was written by historian Joseph Weisberg, whose recent research at the NHS was supported by the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium. ...

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The Past in a Flash: Newport in 1950

November 27, 2024

The images here are a selection from a pilot digitization project, offering a snapshot of daily life in Newport in 1950.

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The African Union Society in Newport: Illuminating Black Life in Colonial & Post-Revolutionary Newport

November 22, 2024

Take a deep dive into the history behind one of the country’s oldest Black-led mutual-aid societies, founded in Newport in the 1780s. This fotostory ...

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Press Release: Newport Historical Society Awarded Grants from Champlin and BankNewport for Center for Black History

November 22, 2024

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 19, 2024 CONTACT Lauren Craig Membership@NewportHistory.org   Newport Historical Society Awarded Grants from Champlin and BankNewport for Center for Black ...

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