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Before we can get into complicated historical debates about the role of religion and politics in the past, we must first understand how historians think.  Many of us know a great deal about the past.  Our elementary, middle, and high school teachers taught us useful and important...

When strung together, words like “religion,””history,” and “politics” can be contentious.  To help us make sense of our past, the Spectacle of Toleration program will explore questions about religion in American history throughout 2013.  This...

How Christian an Understanding? A PUBLIC CONVERSATION ABOUT OUR FOUNDERS AND THEIR INTENT Friday, June 21st, 2013 5-7 pm Great Friends Meeting House, Newport Panelists include author and scholar John Barry (Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul), professor and...

The John Clarke Society of Early American Democracy kicks off the Governor’s yearlong celebration of Rhode Island’s Royal Charter of 1663. May 4th at 11:30, Washington Square, Newport, the Society will celebrate the Charter with the premier performance of America’s Magna Carta....

2013 Annual Newell D. Goff Lecture at the Rhode Island Historical Society 110 Benevolent Street Providence, Rhode Island 02906 Thursday, the 9th of May, 6:30pm Theologies of Translation in Algonquian Country FAITH & FORM IN ROGER WILLIAMS’ “A KEY INTO THE...

“The Jewish Cemetary at Newport,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Read by M.L. Coen for Librivox.

“This yeare the civill government proceeded to censure the residue of those sinfull erroneous persons, who raised much y commotion in this little Common-wealth; who being banished, resorted to a place more Southward, some of them sitting down at a place called Providence, others...