Rhode Island
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17.5K2How Percy Marks Got Fired from Brown for Exposing the Depravities of the Ivy League
In 1924, an obscure Brown University English instructor named Percy Marks rocketed to fame with his first novel, The Plastic Age, an...
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30.9K1Obadiah Holmes, The Baptist Martyr The Puritans Should Have Left Alone
The Puritan leaders of Massachusetts viewed Obadiah Holmes as a loathsome Baptist, and they ordered him whipped 30 times in public. They...
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11.8K2How Providence’s Federal Hill Got Its Name
When a makeshift army in 1788 busted up a Fourth of July oxen roast at the base of a hill in Providence,...
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9.6K1J.J. Van Alen Finds a Wife — But Not His Own
J.J. Van Alen served as a lightning rod for controversy his whole life. But never more so than when he took up...
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13.6K17Old Roger Williams Tries To Stop King Philip’s War
On March 29, 1676, old Roger Williams was one of 30 men who remained in the town of Providence. Most of the...
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11.4K4Lillian Gilbreth, Genius in the Art of Living
Lillian Gilbreth hated the best-selling book written about her in 1948 because it depicted her as a sweet, stay-at-home mom who deferred...
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