Beneath the Polish: The Untarnished History of Newport’s Colonial Silver

July 31, 2024

This is a guest blog post by Bianca Scialabba, MA in History and Museum Studies at Tufts University. Bianca is a 2024 Buchanan Burnham ...

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“A Poet of Interiors”: Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman, and the Decoration of Houses

July 23, 2024

This is a guest blog post by Trinity Kendrick, MSc in Preservation Practices, Roger Williams University. Trinity is a 2024 Buchanan Burnham Fellow. When ...

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New England’s First ‘Temples of the Muses’: The Tumultuous History of Theatre in Newport

July 19, 2024

This is a guest blog post by Jenny Sullivan, MA in History, University of Rhode Island. Jenny is a 2024 Buchanan Burnham Fellow. While ...

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The Newport Folk Festival as a Reflection of the American Sixties

July 9, 2024

This is a guest blog post by Sarah Kraus, BA in History, Salve Regina University. Sarah is a 2024 John E. McGinty Fellow (Salve ...

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“That Awful Spectacle”: Masking the City-by-the-Sea’s Piratical Past

July 3, 2024

This is a guest blog post by Emily DeFazio, BA in History, minor in Italian and Digital Marketing, Notre Dame. Emily is a 2024 ...

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“Miss Cushman is a very dangerous young man”: The Meteoric Rise and Posthumous Erasure of a 19th Century Celebrity

June 24, 2024

This is a guest blog post by Bianca Scialabba, MA in History and Museum Studies at Tufts University. Bianca is a 2024 Buchanan Burnham ...

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