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Leaders of Rhode Island's Golden Age, The
Picking up where The Makers of Modern Rhode Island left off, Dr. Patrick T. Conley, president of the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame, takes us through the golden age of the state's history, from 1861 to 1900. It was during this period that Rhode Island played a leadership role in the Industrial Revolution. From military leaders like General Ambrose Burnside to social reformers such as Sarah Elizabeth Doyle and architects Charles F. McKim and Stanford White, they ensured that the state's contributions to the nation would never be forgotten. This volume includes more than one hundred biographical sketches of influential Rhode Islanders who helped make this brief span of time the greatest in the state's history.
South Providence
"This 2020 revised edition (was) expanded to cover the period 1969-2002."--Page 6.
A Historical Cruise Through the Ocean State
This book, Patrick Conley's thirty-first and his fourth anthology of Rhode Island historical essays, analyzes, like his previous collections, a diversity of Rhode Island topics. Most useful to the student of Rhode Island history are the three introductory essays. The first is a lengthy survey of the state's history written for its 350th anniversary in 1986; the second describes in detail the factors that dramatically transformed Rhode Island from a Republican to a Democratic state (1920-1940); and the third is a local morale booster outlining Rhode Island's eight major contributions to the formation of the United States (1636-1791).The thirty-one remaining essays deal with law (Conley's professional and academic specialty), reviews of Rhode Island books, heritage advocacy, and biographical sketches of select members of the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame, over which Conley has long presided as president.This book concludes with two very personal and introspective biographies - one of Conley's philanthropic wife Gail (his "navigator") and the other of Conley himself, revealing the many facets of his life from childhood to the present.
Viner’S View
If only my parents were still here to answer the questions that I have, answers that no one else would know. How often do we all say something like this and wish that our parents had recorded their histories for future generations: the family tree, their travels, life experiences, dreams, disappointments, achievements, and failures. Its what makes all of our journeys unique and worthy of passing along to our children so that they may know what made us who we are today. Viners View is my answer to those questions, written for my children and grandchildren. Although every question cannot be anticipated, I have recorded my journey from childhood to retirement in the hopes that they know about my life experiences, and the lessons learned from each, so no mystery remains. The events, people, places, and experiences that had a profound effect on my life are recorded here. From Vietnam to the United States Supreme Court, the practice of law to politics, organized labor to the mob: all changed my life in a way that only I can accurately portray.
World War II Rhode Island
Rhode Island's contribution to World War II vastly exceeded its small size. Narragansett Bay was an armed camp dotted by army forts and navy facilities. They included the country's most important torpedo production and testing facilities at Newport and the Northeast's largest naval air station at Quonset Point. Three special, top-secret German POW camps were based in Narragansett and Jamestown. Meanwhile, Rhode Island workers from all over the state - including, for the first time, many women - manufactured military equipment and built warships, most notably the Liberty ships at Providence Shipyard. Authors from the Rhode Island history blog smallstatebighistory.com trace Rhode Island's outsized wartime role, from the scare of an enemy air raid after Pearl Harbor to the war's final German U-boat sunk off Point Judith.
