Rhode Island exhibit focuses on Newport’s ties to tennis
byMore than a century before Roger Federer and Andre Agassi faced off in the U.S Open tennis finals in New York, players were donning…
America
The world of Gilded Age America, where wealth and social activism grew side-by-side.
Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free: Ellis Island
byGilded Age America saw not only a boom in millionaires, but a boom in immigration. During this era, approximately 10 million immigrants entered the…
American Resorts: Newport
byNewport, known as the Queen of Resorts, or as Elizabeth Drexel Lehr stated ironically in her memoirs: “the very Holy and Holies, the playground…