Product Description: In an era when immigration was at its peak, the Fabre Line offered the only transatlantic route to southern New England. One of its most important ports was in Providence, Rhode Island. Nearly eighty-four thousand immigrants were admitted to the country between the years 1911 and 1934...read more

Product Description: The Providence River begins its journey from the confluence of the Moshassuck and Woonasquatucket Rivers, in the capital city from which the river takes its name. A short distance downstream, the Seekonk River joins with the Providence as they flow on toward the mouth of Narragansett Bay...read more

Product Description: The historical evolution of the Rhode Island Constitution is outlined in this comprehensive volume. Each section of the Rhode Island Consitiution is analyzed completely. The authors also offer a detalied historigraphical essay as a guide to further research and study...read more

Product Description: The themes of South Providence--urbanization, immigration, and industrialization--best characterize the nation's modern development. This volume reveals how a well-known Providence community worshipped, studied, worked, played, ate, and drank...read more

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Product Description: In thirteen essays―one on each state―noted historians provide a fascinating picture of the political process by which competing interests and ideas formed the Constitution. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In thirteen essays--one on each state--noted historians provide a fascinating picture of the political process by which competing interests and ideas formed the Constitution.

Product Description: In the 1980 federal census, the first to pose the question of ancestry, 210,950 Rhode Islanders claimed Irish descent. This figure represents more than 22 percent of the state's total population. Despite the early advantage of the English and subsequent waves of immigration from French Canada and Italy, Irish-Americans have been Rhode Island's numerically dominant ethnic group for more than a century...read more

Traces the history of Providence, Rhode Island from Colonial times to the present and examines the development of the city's culture.

Product Description: Book by Conley, Patrick T.