Author: Rhode Island. Office of Commissioner of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Points of Historical Interest in the State of Rhode Island
Author: Rhode Island. Office of Commissioner of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Points of Historical Interest in the State of Rhode Island
Author: Horatio B. KnoxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Proceedings of the Rhode Island Historical Society
Author: Rhode Island Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Author: Thomas Williams BicknellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Rhode Island: A History (States and the Nation)
Author: William McLoughlinPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393302714
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
With a Historical Guide prepared by the editors of the American Association for State and Local History. High atop the Rhode Island capitol in Providence, a bronze likeness of "The Independent Man" keeps watch over a state that historically has put the ideal of individual liberty before all others. Like many ideals, this one was freighted with many meanings. As the colony grew in the seventeenth century, the belief in religious liberty and freedom of conscience espoused by its founder, Roger Williams, led to the development of political liberty and practical democracy. In the eighteenth century, that dedication to individualism made Rhode Islanders into businessmen of the first order, willing to take the big risk in hope of a bigger reward. Their land being poor in natural resources, Rhode Islanders turned to trade; accumulating wealth from traffic in rum and slaves, they built in Newport and Providence small but elegant copies of Georgian England, and worried more about taxes and currency than about religion. When they felt poorly served by British policies, they became ready revolutionaries and led in the founding of a new nation. After the Civil War, their children took individual liberty to mean economic laissez-faire, ushering in the state's golden age when Rhode Island senator Nelson Aldrich became known as the "general manager" of the United States. Through countless changes in the twentieth century, the ideal still survives and asks old questions of new generations of Rhode Islanders from many ethnic backgrounds: How best to reconcile the rights of minorities with the rule of the majority, and how best to secure the individual liberty and economic opportunity that Roger Williams and Moses Brown would have understood so well?
The Cumulative Book Index
Author: Publications of the Rhode Island Historical Society
Author: Rhode Island Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
From 1893-1900 the Publications of the Society include its Proceedings, 1892/93-1899/1900.
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Author: Something Upstairs
Author: AviPublisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545214912
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his murder by slave traders.
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