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Before Rhode Island: Early Peoples and Archaeology
Narragansett History
Roger Williams and the Founding of Rhode Island
Rhode Island, Slavery, and the Slave Trade
On the Burning of His Majesty’s Schooner Gaspee in 1772
Rhode Island in the American Revolution
The Underground Railroad in Rhode Island
Rhode Island and the Civil War
Rhode Island and the Industrial Revolution
Jewish History in Rhode Island
Immigration to Rhode Island
The Struggle for Woman Suffrage in Rhode Island
African American Civil Rights in Rhode Island
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Soldiers of the First Rhode Island Regiment c.1861 Detail from “A Narrative of the First RI Regiment” by Augustus Woodbury, 1862. Rhode Island Historical Society Collections.
Rhode Island and the Civil War
Rhode Island and the Civil War
Primary Sources
Lovell Hospital Pass
Letter to Governor William Sprague to Accept Volunteers of African Descent
An Account of Women’s Donations to the War
Photograph of Kady Brownell
Annotated Map of Gettysburg
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