Speakers Bureau
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Our Speakers Bureau, EnRICHment Opportunities, brings humanities programs to public audiences throughout Rhode Island. Ideal for public libraries, historical societies, and community centers, the programs offered through EnRICHment Opportunities include lectures, discussions, performances, workshops, and slide presentations on a wide range of humanities topics focused on Rhode Island history and culture. With titles such as Orchards in the Ocean State, Quakers & Slavery in Colonial Rhode Island, and Faith, Family, & Freedom: Lives of Early Jews in Colonial Rhode Island, there is something to interest everyone.
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The Legacy of Corruption in the Ocean State
Rough Diamonds: The Providence Grays and the Brutal World of Early Major League Baseball
Annie Smith Peck: From "Downstreet" to "Peck's Peak"
Azoreans in America
The Portuguese Discoveries
Portuguese-American Stories
Folklife in Rhode Island
From Bullrakes to Clambakes
The Invisible World: Supernatural Encounters in Rhode Island
New Guinea and the Negro Elections in Pawtuxet Village
Orchards in the Ocean State
Vampires and Death in New England, 1784-1892
Frozen Glory: The Secret Life of War Memorials
Quakers and Slavery in Colonial Rhode Island
Ocean State of Mind: The Poems of Tom Chandler
Rhode Island's Naval Heritage, 1776-2006
American Storytellers of the 19th and 20th Centuries
American Wordsmiths of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Black Baseball in Rhode Island, 1883-1949
Race and Sport: The Integration of Baseball in Rhode Island
The Landscape of Orphanages: Children's Homes in Rhode Island
Goldman, Robert
14th Black Regiment Civil War Re-Enactors
Out to Pasture: The History of Rhode Island Dairy Farms
Hood, Nancy (see also, Rick Keller)
I've Got a Song: A Living History of the McCarthy Era in New England
The Historic Armories of Rhode Island
Rhode Islandese: An Informal Presentation of the Language of the Nation's Smallest State
The Right to Crow: A Look at Rhode Island's Firsts, Bests, and Uniques
Ladd Observatory, 1891 - Time-Keeping Center
A Cultural History of the Native Peoples of Southern New England: Our Natural World
Blood, Race, and Sovereignty: The Politics of Indian Identity
Viva Italiana: A Celebration of Italian-American Musical Heritage
Stars of the Swing Era: From New England to National Fame
Frank Sinatra: Big Band and Early Solo Days
Man With A Horn: Cornetist Bobby Hackett
Keller, Rick (see also, Nancy Hood)
I've Got a Song: A Living History of the McCarthy Era in New England
Kepley, Laura (see also D. Salem Smith)
Conversations with the Creators of Boots on the Ground or The State of Our State During the War in Iraq
Kougeas, Nancy V.
The Last Voyage of the Slave Ship Charlotte: Discoveries of an Archivist
Art in the Commons: Artists Re-Envisioning Community and Culture
Free, Gifted, and Black: Some Rhode Island African-American Women
Reading Rhode Island Girls' Lives in 1799: Diaries as Historical Records
Weren't They Cheaper by the Dozen? The Gilbreths and Scientific Management in Rhode Island
I Should've Been an Acrobat: Charlotte Perkins Gilman in Flight from Depression
I Must Work, I Live for That Alone: Elizabeth Prophet, Sculptress of Color
The Home Front in World War II Rhode Island
Christiana Bannister: From Shampoos to Shelters
Emily Post: By Motor to the Golden Gate
Who was Madame Eliza Jumel?
Lapan, Maureen
Bishop Berkeley in America
Ancient Indian Peoples of New England: An Archaeological Perspective
How Do Archaeologists Know How Old Something Is?
Fantastic Archaeology: Stories of Frauds, Fakes, and Facts in New England
The Charles Fortes Museum School and Site Specific Education
Fighting Sprawl in Rhode Island
Stone Walls of South County
U.S. Women and World War II
Crime and Punishment in 1874: A Year in the Providence Reform School
The Narragansett Bay: A Photographic Essay
Immigrants of Itri, Italy---Knightsville, Rhode Island
Days of Darkness, Days of Hope
Industrial Revolution (Nature to Profit: The Transformation of the Blackstone Valley)
RIP: Transforming Violence, Cultivating Community
Forests of Southern Rhode Island
Seance, Solace, and Reform: Rhode Island Women and 19th-Century Spiritualism
Rhode Island's Other Woman Reformer: Frances Harriet Whipple Green McDougall
The Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge: The Remarkable Story of a Free Black Woman
Oppersdorff, Mathias (with Marc Levitt)
Stone Walls of South County
Haunted History in Rhode Island: Ghosts in Our Midst
How Providence Became a City Because of the Hardscrabble and Snowtown Race Riots of 1824 and 1831
The Life of William J. Brown and Race in 19th-Century Rhode Island
Lydia Maria Child: Abolitionist and the First Woman in the Republic, a 19th-Century Abolitionist
The Life of William J. Brown and Race in 19th-Century Rhode Island
Lydia Maria Child: Abolitionist and the First Woman in the Republic, a 19th-Century Abolitionist
Born at the Battlefield of Gettysburg: An African-American Family Saga
Defenses of Narragansett Bay in World War II
Hessian Occupation of Newport and Rhode Island, 1776-1779
Lifestyles of the Narragansett People
Shaker, Thomas M. (*Tom; see also Daniel Zilka)
A History of Rhode Island Diners
Ocean State Swing: A History of Rhode Island Jazz
Smith, D. Salem (*Deb) - (see also Laura Kepley)
Conversations with the Creators of Boots on the Ground or The State of Our State During the War in Iraq
American Irony: Religious Freedom and African Slavery in Colonial Rhode Island
A Visual Remembrance: African Slave Markers in Colonial Newport
Faith, Family, and Freedom: Lives of Early Jews in Colonial Rhode Island
Africa's Children in Colonial Rhode Island
Sundlun, The Honorable Bruce
First in War, and Last in Peace (For All the Right Reasons)
King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict
The Blizzard of '78
Wolfgang-Smith, Russell Thomas Esq. (*Russ)
History of the Death Penalty in Rhode Island
Wortman, Bryna
Two "W"s in New England: Thornton Wilder and Tennessee Williams
Zilka, Daniel (see also Tom Shaker)
A History of Rhode Island Diners
West Side Stories: Tales from Providence's West End
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The Rhode Island Legacy program is a drama and discussion series.