The Civic and Architectural Development of Providence 1636-1950 is a comprehensive history of the city of Providence, Rhode Island. The book covers the city's d

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

By the early decades of the eighteenth century, Rhode Island had developed a commercial economy with not one, but two centers. Urban Growth in Colonial Rhode Is