Mar 14, 2024 – McBurney Lecture – Machine Guns in Narragansett Bay

Mar 14, 2024 – Christian McBurney spoke on his new book, Machine Guns in Narragansett Bay: The Coast Guard’s War on Rumrunners  (History Press, 2023) During World War I and World War II, Rhode Island was dotted with coastal forts filled with large caliber guns. Yet they were never fired in anger.  By contrast, from […]

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Dec 6, 2023 – Portsmouth Historical Society Annual Members’ Meeting and Holiday Gathering

Dec 6, 2023 Historical Society held its 2023 Annual Meeting and Holiday Gathering The Society held its annual meeting and holiday gathering that featured showing of recently-digitized color and black and white films of Glen Farm and the Newport County Fairgrounds from the 1920’s and 1930’s. Also, official Portsmouth flag were unveiled.

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Nov 16, 2023 Lecture on Indigenous People During the Colonial Period

Many people may be unaware of the influences and contributions of Indigenous peoples, such as the Narragansett and the Pokanoket, in the early history of Portsmouth. There is a general feeling and misconception that once Aquidneck Island was transferred to the English, Indigenous peoples were no longer a part of Portsmouth history. This lecture shed

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Oct 23, 2023 – 40th Anniversary of Beirut Marine Barracks Bombing Remembered

The Portsmouth Historical Society Museum hosted a remembrance ceremony of the tragic event. On Sunday, October 23, 1983, at about 6:20 a.m., a yellow Mercedes stake-bed truck crashed into the lobby of the barracks of the 1st Battalion 8th Marines before the driver detonated a suicide bomb. The bomb was the equivalent of about 12,000

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Oct 19, 2023 – NY Times Best Selling Author Lectures on the War Between the Colonists and Native Americans

NY Times Best Selling Author to Lecture of the War Between the Colonists and Native Americans NY Times bestselling author Michael Tougias gave a presentation on  the war between the Colonists and Native Americans in 1675-76 at the Portsmouth Historical Society on October 19th.  Tougias is the author of the acclaimed Until I Have No

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