Rhode Island Historical Society
Founded in 1822, the RIHS is the fourth-oldest state historical society in the United States. It is a private organization, founded and supported by its membership.
The RIHS holds the largest and most important historical collections relating to Rhode Island. These collections include 25,000 museum objects, more than 100,000 printed books, 110,000 photographs, 3,400 sound recordings (including oral histories and music), 9 million feet of moving picture film, over 1,100 manuscript collections (measuring over 7,000 linear feet), 3,400 maps, 20,000 prints, 16,000 pieces of ephemera, 15,000 architectural drawings, and several smaller, miscellaneous categories of historical holdings. These collections grow every year, due to gifts and purchases.
The Providence Steam Roller: New England's First NFL Team Book Talk
Reading Roger Williams: Rogue Puritans, Indigenous Nations, the Founding of America Book Talk
Love Our Collections 2024: Depositing History: The Old Stone Bank Digitization Project
Love Our Collections 2024: Traveling Treasures from the Rhode Island Historical Society
Love Our Collections 2024: Film at the RIHS
Love Our Collections 2024: Silk Threads and Love Tokens
Celebrating Rhode Island Heritage: Quilt History, Highlights, and Craft with Sandra Smith
A Purposeful Life: Charles Thomas and the Struggle for Racial Equity in Sports with Robert Cvornyek
Love Our Collections 2024: RIHS Collections: Acquisitions in the 21st Century
Valley Talks 2024: Making the French Connection: Industrial Architectural Heritages of Woonsocket, R
Mishpakha: Jewish History of Woonsocket Exhibit Video Tour
The Providence Traders in Botany Bay with Ambassador David Stuart
Black Greys and Colored Giants Book Talk with Robert Cvornyek
Valley Talks: Worldly Rhode Island
Valley Talks: International Scholars in RI - Immigration & the Shaping of a Life
Valley Talks: 118 Years of History of Chan's Fine Oriental Dining In Woonsocket, RI (1905 to 2023)
Valley Talks: B’nai Israel: Woonsocket’s Gorgeous but Little-Known Synagogue
Woonsocket Theaters: Past & Present
Newport Bridge Construction (1967)
Palace Theatre Renovations (1976)
Family Memories: A Conversation About Camp and Its Aftermath
Day of Remembrance: Executive Order 9066 and Its Legacies
Inside the Archives: “Providential Actions: The RIHS and its Early Contemporaries” with Alea Henle
Valley Talks: "In the Beginning: Origins of the French-Canadian Exodus, 1826-1861"
Inside the Archives: How Welfare Worked in the Early United States with Gabe Loiacono
Inside the Archives: Discovering the Secrets Within the Old Stone Bank Records