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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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Women Witnessing Governor Beeckman Signing Rhode Island’s Women’s Suffrage Act, April 18, 1917. Group in back of Gov. Beeckman, from left to right: Unidentified woman (most likely Ethel W. Parks), Helen R. Parks, Mabel E. Orgelman, Senator Henry B. Kane, Agnes M. Jenks, Elizabeth Upham Yates, Anna G. Smith, Nettie E. Bauer, Representative Richard W. Jennings, and Mildred Glines. Rhode Island Historical Society Collections RhiX36143.
The Struggle for Woman Suffrage in Rhode Island
The Struggle for Woman Suffrage in Rhode Island
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Women Employees Playing Baseball
Political Cartoon from a Rhode Island Newspaper
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Bertha Higgins’s House
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