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Newport Historical Society Ocean State Stories: Q & A with Rebecca Bertrand - Newport Historical Society
By: G. Wayne Miller, Ocean State Stories A belated congratulations, Rebecca, on becoming executive director of the Newport Historical Society [in 2022]! Can you give us a summary of the society’s mission and holdings? Thank you! It has been over a year since I stepped into the role, and it’s been an incredible experience so […]
Newport Historical Society Newport Daily News: Newport's Black history shared in pair of new projects - Newport Historical Society
By: Newport Daily News Staff The lives of Black people in Newport’s history are becoming easier to see through a pair of recent initiatives. The Newport Historical Society recently launched “Voices from the NHS Archives,” an expansive research project that centers the Black and Indigenous experiences embedded in Newport’s historical record. This digital tool is […]
Newport Historical Society Boston Globe: Q&A with Executive Director, Rebecca Bertrand - Newport Historical Society
By: Dan McGowan, Boston Globe & The Globe Rhode Island It’s Black History Month, and the Newport Historical Society just launched a fascinating research project that centers the Black and Indigenous experiences embedded in the City by the Sea’s historical record. You can check out “Voices from the NHS Archives” for yourself by clicking […]
Newport Historical Society Newport Buzz: Newport Historical Society Launches Groundbreaking Project to Amplify Black and Indigenous Voices in Local History - Newport Historical Society
By: Christian Winthrop, Newport Buzz The Newport Historical Society (NHS) unveiled its latest initiative Thursday, “Voices from the NHS Archives,” marking a significant milestone in the organization’s commitment to inclusivity and historical accuracy. This extensive research project, developed over four years, delves into Newport’s historical records to spotlight the often overlooked experiences of Black and […]
Newport Historical Society WPRI 12: Newport Historical Society making Black history more accessible with digital archive - Newport Historical Society
By: Leah Crowley, WPRI 12 NEWPORT, R.I. (WPRI) — The Newport Historical Society launched a new online resource on Thursday called “Voices of the NHS Archives.” The project is bringing the society’s archives into the digital age. The papers being preserved at the Touro Street facility date back hundreds of years. Staff had the idea […]
Newport Historical Society What's Up Newport: Newport Historical Society launches new digital database to highlight Black and Indigenous history - Newport Historical Society
By: Ryan Belmore, What’s Up Newport The Newport Historical Society (NHS) is launching a new digital database that will make it easier for people to find and learn about the history of Black and Indigenous people in Newport. The project, called Voices from the NHS Archives, has been in the works for years and includes reviewing […]
Newport Historical Society Flooding damages 8,000 photos at Newport Historical Society - Newport Historical Society
January 10, 2024 WPRI 12 By: Kate Wilkinson NEWPORT, R.I. (WPRI) — Historians discovered three inches of flooding in the basement of the Newport Historical Society on Wednesday, after a powerful rain storm came through. Executive Director Rebecca Bertrand said she received the call from her coworker before she came in and knew they would have to act […]
Newport Historical Society Flood in Newport Historical Society's basement damages archives. How they're being saved - Newport Historical Society
January 16, 2024 By: Savana Dunning, Newport Daily News Hanging from a clothing line stretched across two sets of ladders, dozens, if not hundreds, of film negatives from The Newport Daily News archives dry out in the lobby of the Newport Historical Society’s headquarters on Touro Street, just a portion of the photo archive that was impacted […]
Newport Historical Society Press Release: Voices from the NHS Archives - Newport Historical Society
For Immediate Release: February 8, 2024 Contact: Press@NewportHistory.org Newport Historical Society Resource Makes Newport’s Black and Indigenous History More Accessible Database Includes 4,000+ Records and Will Continue to Grow NEWPORT, R.I.—The Newport Historical Society (NHS) today launches Voices from the NHS Archives, an expansive research project that centers the Black and Indigenous experiences embedded in Newport’s […]
Newport Historical Society Newport Historical Society staff races to save archive of old photographs damaged in storm-related flooding - Newport Historical Society
The photos are part of the Historical Society’s 500,000-photo collection, which dates back to the 1950s and includes photos donated by the Newport Daily News January 11, 2024 The Boston Globe By: Brittany Bowker, Globe Staff A collection of more than 8,000 treasured historic photographs and negatives from the Newport Historical Society were damaged Wednesday when […]
Newport Historical Society Floods at Newport Historical Society damages thousands of historical photographs - Newport Historical Society
NBC 10 NEWS | Wed. January 10th 2024 Flood waters reaching the Newport Historical Society caused severe damage on Wednesday. Staff said about 8,000 photographs were covered in water. The team was working to move and dry the materials to save what they can. Staff also said treasured photographs and negatives were damaged. They are […]
Newport Historical Society Newport Historical Society Resource Makes Newport’s Black and Indigenous History More Accessible - Newport Historical Society
The Newport Historical Society (NHS) is proud to announce the launch of Voices from the NHS Archives, an expansive research project that centers the Black and Indigenous experiences embedded in Newport’s historical record. This digital tool is the culmination of four years of work, feedback from dozens of experts and advisors, and the review of […]
Newport Historical Society The Labor behind the Learned: A Reexamination of Ezra Stiles - Newport Historical Society
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 a 2023 Buchanan Burnham Fellow. Ezra Stiles was born in North Haven, Connecticut, in 1727 to Reverend Isaac Stiles and Kezia Taylor Stiles. Stiles graduated from Yale in 1746 and was […]
Newport Historical Society “Gain the Hearts and Subdue the Minds”: Commanding Loyalty in the Revolutionary War - Newport Historical Society
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 a 2023 Buchanan Burnham Fellow. Political and military leaders of the opposing British and American forces understood that winning the Revolutionary War required more than military successes. General Henry Clinton, Commander […]
Newport Historical Society History Bytes: Politicizing the Personal in Revolutionary Newport - Newport Historical Society
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 a 2023 Buchanan Burnham Fellow. The typical understanding of political allegiance during the American Revolution as binary—Patriot or Loyalist, American or British—obscures the very real tribulations people experienced and dismisses fluctuations […]
Newport Historical Society History Bytes: Reading between the Lines for Obour Tanner - Newport Historical Society
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, where she studies free and unfree labor in early America and the legacies of rural labor and craft in cultural history. Amelia is a 2023 Buchanan Burnham Fellow. In this post, […]
Newport Historical Society Solidarity with the South: Newport NAACP's Boycotts in 1960 - Newport Historical Society
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 American history). Lindsey is a 2023 John E. McGinty Fellow. The civil rights struggle involved an interconnectedness between northern and southern Black activists, radical groups, and religious organizations, particularly during lunch […]
Newport Historical Society Freedom of the (Printing) Press: Reading Between the Lines of the Loyalist-Patriot Divide - Newport Historical Society
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 a 2023 Buchanan Burnham Fellow. The intricacies of loyalty and allegiance during the American Revolution are difficult to discern. From private correspondence to newspaper reports, written glimpses into the Revolutionary Era […]
Newport Historical Society History Bytes: Phillis Wheatley’s Newport Mercury Connection - Newport Historical Society
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, where she studies free and unfree labor in early America and the legacies of rural labor and craft in cultural history. Amelia is a 2023 Buchanan Burnham Fellow. Among notices for […]
Newport Historical Society History Bytes: Katherine Prescott Wormeley - Newport Historical Society
Katherine Prescott Wormeley (1830-1908) was a reformer, author and philanthropist who served as superintendent of the Lovell Civil War Hospital at Portsmouth Grove, RI, and a founder of the United States Sanitary Commission. She lived in a cottage at the corner of Old Beach Road and Red Cross Avenue (2 Red Cross Avenue, pictured above). […]
Newport Historical Society Paper Citizens at Sea: Sailor Protection Certificates - Newport Historical Society
This is a guest blog post by Maureen Iplenski, MA/PhD in History, American Studies, Certificate in Museum Studies (expected 2026) University of Delaware. Maureen was a 2022 NHS Buchanan Burnham Fellow, contributing towards the “BIPOC Biographies from the Archives of the Newport Historical Society” initiative. On March 5, 1810, David Smith, an African American sailor, […]
Newport Historical Society Recent Acquisition: Eveline Roberge Folk Art Painting - Newport Historical Society
NHS recently received a painting by local artist Eveline Roberge (b. 1920) depicting Newport Harbor from Goat Island. Roberge is a 20th century artist noted for her primitive style and depictions of Newport landscapes and scenes. According to the artist, the painting was started during the U.S. bicentennial in 1976 but was not completed until […]
Newport Historical Society History Bytes: The Oliver Hazard Perry Timber Map - Newport Historical Society
Does the cold weather have you thinking of Fall foliage, raking leaves, and Christmas trees? In 1812, trees were very much on the mind of the United States Navy. In aid of ship-building efforts during the War of 1812 (a three-year conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain), Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry commissioned …
Newport Historical Society Recent Acquisition: A Ledger with a Story to Spill - Newport Historical Society
Here at the NHS, there are few things we like more than a good historical mystery- and we are ale the more intrigued if that mystery involves beer. In 2019, a ledger was donated to NHS: other than writing at the top of each page pointing to a 1770 date, little was known about the …
Newport Historical Society History Bytes: "One-Third" & “One-Half” – Shared Ownership of Enslaved Persons - Newport Historical Society
This is a guest blog post by Maureen Iplenski, MA/PhD in History, American Studies, Certificate in Museum Studies (expected 2026) University of Delaware. Maureen is a 2022 Buchanan Burnham Fellow, contributing towards the “BIPOC Biographies from the Archives of the Newport Historical Society” initiative. In May of 1775, Demaris Fowler, a Widow then living in …
Newport Historical Society Theft or Trade — The Revolutionary Ideals Behind a Rhode Island Smuggling Case - Newport Historical Society
This guest post was written by Henry Snow, PhD Candidate, History, Rutgers University, whose recent research at the NHS was supported by the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium. Henry’s research topic is ‘The Ends of the Ocean: Power and Change at the Atlantic Dockside, 1740-1840’. Rhode Island was an epicenter of revolution in more ways …
Newport Historical Society History Bytes: Female Enslavers in 18th Century Newport - Newport Historical Society
This is a guest blog post by Maureen Iplenski, MA/PhD in History, American Studies, Certificate in Museum Studies (expected 2026) University of Delaware. Maureen is a 2022 Buchanan Burnham Fellow, contributing towards the “BIPOC Biographies from the Archives of the Newport Historical Society” initiative. In the 18th-century, Newport was recognized as the fifth largest city …
Newport Historical Society History Bytes: Quarantined on “Coaster’s Island” - Tracing Newport’s Smallpox Victims - Newport Historical Society
This is a guest blog post by Rebecca Farias, MA in History, Providence College. Rebecca is a 2022 Buchanan Burnham Fellow, contributing towards the “BIPOC Biographies from the Archives of the Newport Historical Society” initiative. The NHS holds a document with relevance to the COVID-19 pandemic: a handwritten 1772 roster titled “A List of Persons …
Newport Historical Society History Bytes: Life as a Newport Privateer - Newport Historical Society
This is a guest blog post by Rebecca Farias, MA in History, Providence College. Rebecca is a 2022 Buchanan Burnham Fellow, contributing towards the “BIPOC Biographies from the Archives of the Newport Historical Society” initiative. Newport’s turbulent history with privateering began in 1652. The eastern Long Island government (then under the purview of Massachusetts) chartered …
Newport Historical Society New England Regional Fellowship Consortium, 2023–2024 Cycle - Newport Historical Society
Research Grants, 2023–2024 The Newport Historical Society is a member of the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium. This collaboration of thirty-one major cultural agencies will offer at least least two dozen fellowships in 2023–2024. Each grant provides a stipend of $5,000 for a minimum of eight weeks of research at three or more participating institutions …