Rhode Island
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12.2KWhat the Insider’s Guide to the Colleges in New England Said in 1972
In 1972, undergraduates at the Yale Daily News published The Insider’s Guide to the Colleges, an entertaining but blatantly sexist description of...
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8.7KA Newport Quaker and The French Pirates – The John Hull Story
Capt. John Hull made frequent trips between America and England as early as the 1680s. He ran a profitable line of ships...
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8.0KHow Narragansett Beer Survived Prohibition (But Still Couldn’t Escape the Government)
Back in the 1950s and 1960s, anyone who walked into a New England tavern and ordered a beer probably got a Narragansett....
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17.4K4How the Jewish Immigrants Came to New England
It’s an oft-told story about the Jewish immigrant who rose from poverty on New York’s Lower East Side to prominence through hard...
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11.2K2Samuel Maverick Writes A Guide to the Wonders of New England – in 1660
Samuel Maverick, as his name suggests, didn’t like to go along with the crowd. The Puritan crowd, that is. He came to...
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9.4KThe Providence Tea Party: On Dry Land, in Daylight and Thrown By Women
Rhode Island patriots had no more love for tea than did their allies in Boston, and on March 2, 1775, they threw...
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