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Zoom, $10 per person. Register and buy your ticket here! Presented in partnership with The Sailing Museum What’s life like at sea…is it any different today than it was in the past? On Thursday April 20, 2023 at 5:30pm, the Newport Historical Society will host the Zoom discussion All Hands on Deck: Life at Sea […]

The latest in a series of civil discourse with the Newport Historical Society. To address a question that affects America as a whole, we assembled a diverse group that included men and women, some from academia and many not, Black and white. It was notably generationally varied, ranging from the young 20s through the 80s […]

For my grandfather, a Jewish socialist refugee from Russia/Poland in the early years of the 20th century, embracing bacon was one way to be an American. He cooked it every Sunday for his three sons while my grandmother left the house to avoid the unkosher experiment. When they were done, he hung the pan on […]

Back in February, the NHS convened the first of several conversations about the future of living history or costumed interpretation. We asked practitioners in all kinds of settings to join us, as well as individuals who run historic sites, and trained historians generally. This effort was in many ways prompted by the storming of the […]

The Newport Historical Society recently sat down, by Zoom, with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse to collect his experiences at the US Capitol on January 6th for the archives. This “history that we are making now” is a new emphasis for the NHS; we are living in clearly historic times that should be recorded for the future. […]