C-SPAN Cities Tour - Providence: John Hay Library Special Collections
See the collections of the John Hay Library at Brown University. We feature their diverse collection which includes items ranging from Abraham Lincoln's Meditation of the Divine Will original manuscript, to artifacts documenting Rhode Island's Dorr Rebellion, to the coffee pot used by the founding members of Alcoholics Anonymous.
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C-SPAN Cities Tour - Providence: Rhode Island Historical Society Research Library Collections
Rhode Island Historical Society Research Library Collections
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Rhode Island Johnny-Cakes
This broadside ballad was printed c. 1840 in Providence, Rhode Island and we found it in the Harris Broadside collection at the John Hay Library, Brown University. See here:
The tune is an elaboration on the melody of a sea shanty called Liverpool Judies.
The song is featured in The Ocean State Songster, Vol. I available here:
C-SPAN Cities Tour - Providence: John Brown and the Rhode Island Slave Trade
Visit the John Brown Home to learn about this man (Brown University is named after his family) and his family's history which pitted brother against brother over the issue of the slave trade in the days leading into the revolution. Rhode Island was an active importer of slaves during this time period.
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Special Collections
Introduces the John Hay Library and Brown's special collections
Dorr Rebellion
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The Dorr Rebellion was a failed attempt to force broader democracy in the U.S.state of Rhode Island, where a small rural elite was in control of government.It was led by Thomas Wilson Dorr, who mobilized the disenfranchised to demand changes to the state's electoral rules.The state used as its constitution the 1663 colonial charter that required a man to own $134 in property to vote, and gave an equal weight in the Rhode Island General Assembly to all towns no matter what their population.
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Visiting the Rhode Island State House
C-SPAN Cities Tour - Cheyenne: Toppan Rare Books Library
Learn about the rare books history course taught at the University of Wyoming Toppan Library. For the last 18 years, Head Librarian Anne Marie Lane has been on a mission to expose students to the collection found on their campus. Many believe that rare books should be seen and not touched, however Anne Marie Lane believes that they are an opportunity to teach about the history of print making as well as ways to discuss modern topics such as gender, politics, and race.
Arkham Reporter in PROVIDENCE - Lovecraft's Hometown
My trip to Providence, RI where I visited numerous sites related to H.P. Lovecraft including: his home, his grave, libraries and locations mentioned in his stories.
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It is Just Defiance - Reading by Sylvia Ann Soares
It Is Just Defiance”
A Living History of Nancy Elizabeth Prophet’s Paris Diaries
Read by Sylvia Ann Soares, SAG-AFTRA & AEA
Recorded at AS220, Saturday, June 14, 2014
It Is Just Defiance is made possible through major funding support from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, an independent state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Sylvia Ann Soares’ first reading of the diary of Nancy Elizabeth Prophet diary was at RI School of Design Metcalf Auditorium, April13, 2014. It was entitled “Calm Assurance and Savage Pleasure,” commissioned by the RI Black Heritage Society for the exhibit series on Prophet, “The Art and Life of Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: RI Black Sculptress.” Producers Robb Dimmick and Ray Rickman, sponsored by the RI Council for the Humanities, RI School of Design, RI College, RI Historical Society, The Providence Athenaeum and Opera Providence.
The Nancy Elizabeth Prophet Diary (1922-1934) is housed at the Brown University John Hay Library, Holly Snyder, Curator, North American Historical Collections. It is online at Brown University Library Center for Digital Scholarship.
Annual celebration to honor RI's Lovecraft
A free event is being held at the Ladd Observatory on Sunday at 3 p.m.
Sylvia Brown: Grappling with Legacy
On Tuesday, February 20, 2018 in the Lownes Room of the John Hay Library, Sylvia Brown gave a talk entitled, “Grappling with Legacy.”
Grappling with Legacy: Rhode Island’s Brown Family and the American Philanthropic Impulse
In 2016, Americans gave $41 billion to institutions of higher education.The concept of a university as an agent of social change has become an intrinsic part of our ethos. It started right here in the early 19th century when Nicholas Brown II poured money into Brown University to give young men the moral compass they needed to navigate the era’s stormy seas. Yet less than a century later, a speaker at the inaugural symposium of the University’s Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice declared, “There were no good Browns.” Sylvia Brown’s book, Grappling with Legacy: Rhode Island’s Brown Family and the American Philanthropic Impulse, was born of these two starkly opposed perspectives and tells the story of America’s evolving attitudes towards charitable giving.
Sylvia Brown
The eldest of the 11th generation of the Browns of Rhode Island, Sylvia Brown was attracted to development economics from an early age. Following her BS and MA degrees at the University of Pennsylvania, she pursued a professional career in international development, from Wall Street to the United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees. For the past decade, she has worked with donors on their personal strategy and with non-profits looking to improve their sustainability and board governance practices. Her personal philanthropy focuses on both her family’s longstanding interest in history and heritage (including Brown University) and on the impact investment sector in Rhode Island, where she is a director of the Social Enterprise Greenhouse. In 2015, she launched Uplifting Journeys, an immersive donor education program to empower anyone, anywhere, to give more thoughtfully and strategically.
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Brown University
Brown University's HP Lovecraft Collection - The Horror Show with Brian Keene - Ep 27
After a month on the road, Brian Keene and Dave Thomas return home to discuss their visit to the John Hay Library at Brown University and viewing the vast collection of H.P. Lovecraft's papers and manuscripts (as well as items from Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard and others).
C-SPAN Cities Tour - Providence: Providence Athenaeum
Providence Athenaeum
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Waterloo 1815: The Image and the Battle
Peter Harrington, curator, Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, University Library
In this bicentennial year of the iconic Battle of Waterloo, Peter Harrington will explore numerous artistic representations of the battle. Many have mythologized Waterloo, from Royal Academicians to amateur artists and veterans, by creating idealized images of the victory over Napoleon. The illustrated talk will include popular prints from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection and paintings from the European Collections. Following the talk, participants will be invited to view Waterloo 1815: A Bicentennial Exhibition, installed in the Hay’s exhibition gallery.
John Hay Library, Lownes Room, 20 Prospect St.
Sponsored by the University Library
C-SPAN Cities Tour - Dayton: Marian Library Collection
The Marian Library aims to further study and research and also to promote well-founded Mary devotion. The Marian Library's collection includes theological treaties, books on shrines, sermon collections, patristic, systematic and spiritual theology.
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Gun Rally Rhode Island Statehouse 2013
Speech at RI gun rally to support 2nd amendment, January 19, 2013
LE PROVIDENCE DE LOVECRAFT, GUIDE AFFECTIF & PRATIQUE
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• index : Capitole 0.06; cimetière Saint-John 0.20; Benefit Street 1:03; Angell Street 1:56; Lippitt House 2:09; Seekonk 3:44; Prospect Park 4:16; Swan Point Cemetery 5:08; Ladd Observatory 6:18; John Hay Library 6:53; Athenaeum Library 7:19; First Baptist Church 9:07; RISD 12:19; Providence downtown 12:51; Cellar Stories 14:28; Providence Arts Center 15:23; la vieille centrale 15:38; gare de Pawtucket 16:25; Central Falls 17:09.
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C-SPAN Cities Tour - Des Moines: Salisbury House Library
Visit the historic Salisbury House & Gardens, built between 1923-1928 by Carl and Edith Weeks. Carl Weeks was a famous cosmetics manufacturer and avid book collector in the early 20th century. The Salisbury House Library, located inside the Salisbury House & Gardens, is a repository of more than 3,000 rare and first edition books. The library contains rare books dating as far back as the 1400's. See some of the collection including rare editions and signed copies from authors like Earnest Hemmingway and Walt Whitman. Hear Salisbury House & Garden Curator and Historian Megan Stout Sibbel, talk about the history of the home, owner and collector Carl Weeks, and the library's literary collection.