On June 3, 1824, the Pawtucket, Rhode Island factory strike, one of the first strikes in American history, ended. This is a great entry point into the difficulties of labor.
This is the grave of Nelson Aldrich. Born in 1841 in Foster, Rhode Island, Aldrich came from a family with long connections to the New England colonial elite, but which.
This is the grave of T.F. Green. Born in 1867 in Providence, Rhode Island, Theodore Francis Green grew up pretty well off. His father was a prominent lawyer. Green went.
This one was kind of fun for me. It's a compilation of early film footage from Providence in the 1910s and 1920 that the Rhode Island Historical Society stitched together..
This 1947 travel film about Rhode Island is....something. Kinda boring. Kinda interesting for the footage. Kinda offensive in the statement that Rhode Island has no history before white settlement. Kinda.
It's a landmark number in the film series. Plus I've never really paid attention to Rhode Island in this thing. So let's check out this 1921 urban booster film of.
Rhode Island's incompetence in administering the vaccine is astounding and suggestive of larger problems with technocratic centrism. The above quote comes from this story. See, Rhode Island is merely last.
At this time of fighting police violence and reckoning with our racist past, it's worth noting that said past is not about the South, not exclusively nor primarily. It's about.
