"Robert Emmet Quinn (1894-1975) served Rhode Island and the nation in a variety of positions. As West Warwick's state senator to the General Assembly he helped lead the Democratic senate filibuster of 1924; as lieutenant governor he was chief architect of the Bloodless Revolution of 1935; and as governor he called out the state militia in 1937 in what would come to be known as the Race Track War. Appointed a justice to the Rhode Island Superior Court...

A chronicle of five centuries of outstanding women who left their mark on the Ocean State.

Rhode Island proudly claims a long list of remarkable women throughout history, from pioneering education reformers and suffragettes to trailblazing athletes and authors. In the mid-1800s, Sarah Helen Whitman became a prominent female poet and nearly married Edgar Allan Poe. In 1922, Isabelle Ahearn O’Neil became the first woman to hold

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