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ABC 6: Flooding nearly destroys 8,000 pictures at Newport Historical Society

January 10, 2024

  By: Josh Kurman, ABC 6 NEWPORT, R.I. (WLNE) — The Newport Historical Society put out a call for help when it found out Tuesday’s storm nearly ...

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The Labor behind the Learned: A Reexamination of Ezra Stiles

September 8, 2023

This is a guest blog post by Sam Dinnie (they/them), a PhD student in early American history at The George Washington University. Sam is ...

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“Gain the Hearts and Subdue the Minds”: Commanding Loyalty in the Revolutionary War

August 18, 2023

This is a guest blog post by Sam Dinnie (they/them), a PhD student in early American history at The George Washington University. Sam is ...

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History Bytes: Politicizing the Personal in Revolutionary Newport

August 7, 2023

This is a guest blog post by Sam Dinnie (they/them), a PhD student in early American history at The George Washington University. Sam is ...

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History Bytes: Reading between the Lines for Obour Tanner

July 28, 2023

This is a guest blog post by Amelia Yeager (she/her), a first year Master’s student in public history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, ...

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Solidarity with the South: Newport NAACP’s Boycotts in 1960

July 21, 2023

This is a guest blog post by Lindsey Smith (she/her), a recent graduate of Salve Regina University with a BA in history (concentration in ...

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