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"It is such an extraordinary story and historical document," Fields-Black said. "It is extremely rare to know an enslaved ...
Brown University history professor Mack Scott grew up Indigenous in Rhode Island. He moved to the Narragansett reservation in Charlestown in middle school, where he was steeped in his culture. But ...
Stolen Relations, a public database set to launch on Saturday, May 10, reveals the stories of thousands of Native people ...
Efforts to take the focus off the nation’s racial past in compliance with President Trump’s wishes face resistance from those ...
While the Trump administration tries to downplay matters of race and racism in US history, the minister of a Providence ...
Historians, veterans, and Rockford residents gathered at Veterans Memorial Hall to learn about the history of local ...
Confederate symbols, and their continued valorization, rob us of an opportunity to understand our own rich “people’s heritage.” ...
Wedding of George Webbe Tobin of 2nd Reg. of Dragoon guards to Susannah Christian, only daughter of late John Cobham of Island of Barbados, 15/12/1830 at Teignmouth, Devon. John Cobham Bush, Adm. pens ...