Naval Station Newport was formally established in 1883 under the command of Captain Stephen B. Luce for the purpose of training 750 sailors. A ...
More InfoGuest Post by Margaret Hanson, 2018 Fellow in the Newport Historical Society’s Buchanan Burnham Summer Scholars in Public History Program This December, the Newport ...
More InfoThe Woman’s Land Army of America (WLAA) was a civilian organization created during WWI for the purpose of avoiding a food production crisis by ...
More InfoGuest post by Kerry McAuliffe, NHS Archives Intern and graduate student at Simmons School of Library and Information Science This year marks the centennial ...
More InfoGuest post by Mollie Surprenant, 2017 Salve Regina McGinty Fellow in the Newport Historical Society’s Buchanan Burnham Summer Scholars in Public History Program. Since ...
More InfoThe Newport Historical Society’s essay contest, Big Ideas for a Changing World: Write Your Way to Hamilton, had a record number of entries this ...
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