By: Christian Winthrop, What’s Up Newport On display at the Richard I. Burnham Resource Center from May to November 2024, A Name, A Voice, a Life explored the experiences of Black […]

Newport Historical Society Blog

12.06.2025

Newport Historical Society WPRI12: Newport Historical Society exhibition wins national award - Newport Historical Society

By: Leah Crowley, WPRI12 NEWPORT, R.I. (WPRI) — The Newport Historical Society (NHS) is being recognized at the national level for shining a light on some of the city’s previously untold […]

Newport Historical Society Blog

21.06.2025

Newport Historical Society “A Sewer for the Filth, Foulness and Dirt”: Newport Confronts the Ku Klux Klan - Newport Historical Society

This is a guest blog post by Evelyn Daigneault, a rising senior studying history and English at Brown University. Evelyn is a 2025 Buchanan Burnham Fellow. On Saturday, March 1st, […]

Newport Historical Society Blog

25.06.2025

Newport Historical Society “Let the Dead Rest”: The Tumultuous History of the Arnold Burying Ground - Newport Historical Society

This is a guest blog post by Rebecca Dawson, a rising senior studying American History and Cultural & Historic Preservation, Salve Regina University. Rebecca is a 2025 John E. McGinty […]

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Newport Historical Society What's Up Newport: Newport Historical Society wins Award of Excellence for ‘A Name, A Voice, A Life: The Black Newporters of the 17th-19th Centuries’ - Newport Historical Society

Newport Historical Society WPRI12: Newport Historical Society exhibition wins national award - Newport Historical Society

Newport Historical Society “A Sewer for the Filth, Foulness and Dirt”: Newport Confronts the Ku Klux Klan - Newport Historical Society

Newport Historical Society “Let the Dead Rest”: The Tumultuous History of the Arnold Burying Ground - Newport Historical Society

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