Resources
The following list of links is not comprehensive but should be considered as a starting point. RICH encourages you to explore the wealth of cultural resources available. In addition, various resources are available at our offices, located at 385 Westminster Street, Suite 2, Providence.
Links to Legislators
United States House of Representatives
National Cultural Resources
American Association for State and Local History (AASLH)
The American Council of Learned Societies
American Historical Association
Federation of State Humanities Councils
National Council for History Education
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Humanities
Rhode Island Cultural Resources
Arts and Cultural Alliance of Newport County
A forum for the arts; the place for Rhode Island artists to exhibit or perform.
The Charles Sullivan Fund for Arts and Humanities at CCRI
The Cogut Center for the Humanities
The Cogut Center for the Humanities at Brown University supports
collaborative research among scholars in the humanities, focusing on
interdisciplinary and comparative work across cultural and linguistic
boundaries.
Directory of Rhode Island Historical Records Repositories
The John Nicolas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization
The John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization is Brown University’s center for the public humanities. The Center supports students and faculty who connect the public to history, art, and culture, and sponsors programs that consider the ways in which the humanities enrich everyday life.
The Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy
Established by an Act of Congress on September 28, 1996, the Pell Center promotes the primary objectives of Pell's decades of public service: enhancing international dialogue to achieve a more peaceful world and preparing individuals for an informed and active role in local, national and world affairs.
Rhode Island Black Heritage Society
The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society "is constituted for the purpose of: Procuring, collecting, and preserving books, pamphlets, letters, manuscripts, prints, photographs, paintings, and any other historical material relating to the history of the Blacks of Rhode Island; encouraging and promoting the study of such history by lectures and otherwise; and publishing and diffusing information as to such history."
Rhode Island Historical Society
To fulfill its mission, the Society owns and operates the circa 1786 John Brown House (a National Historic Landmark), the Library, and the Aldrich House administrative building in Providence, and the Museum of Work and Culture in Woonsocket. Educational programs, lectures, publications, and exhibits are all part of the Society's 180-year history of bringing the past to life for the citizens of the state.
Rhode Island Marine Archeology Project
Since 1991 the Rhode Island Marine Archeology Project has performed background research, collected historical information, and conducted field work on the vessels beneath Rhode Isalnd waters.
Rhode Island Office of Library and Information Services
Extensive links to online library catalogs, library searches, and other library services.
Rhode Island's Public Radio: WRNI
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
Events, guidelines and information about the arts in Rhode Island.
Rhode Island State Archives
The Rhode Island State Archives maintains the permanent records of state government. The collection of historical records, dating from 1638 to the present, documents the colony and State of Rhode Island. Documents and graphic materials, including maps and photographs, are made available to the public for research. The State Archives also features exhibit that are free and open to the public.
The State Library Agency of Rhode Island
The state library agency of Rhode Island supports and strengthens library services by planning, by coordinating, by providing consultation services, training, and funding, and by promoting collaboration among libraries to ensure that all residents will benefit from free, open, convenient, and timely access to excellent library and information resources and services.
The URI Center for the Humanities
RURI's Center for the Humanities is designed to foster intellectual exchange and independent inquiry, analysis, and interpretation of the humanities in research, traching, and learning. its activities include a speaker series, reseach grants, and fellowships for faculty and graduate students.
These activities are intended to support and make public the research of the University's humanities faculty and graduate students as well as create links between that research and undergraduate education in the humanities. This occurs through course development based on the work of faculty fellows as well as specific connections between undergraduate courses and the visiting scholars program. The Center for the Humanities exists within the College of Arts and Sciences at URI. It was established by faculaty senate legislation in 1994.
Journals
Virtual
The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Humanities and Humanistic Studies
An index of humanities topics maintained by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Goteborg University, Sweden.
Yahoo! - Arts:Humanities
In Other Words: A Lexicon of the Humanities—a way for scholars to do interdisciplinary work through this searchable database. Medical Humanities—an annotated bibliography of prose and poetry, which is being developed as a dynamic, accessible, comprehensive resource in medical humanities.
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