In 1984, a student-run movement to provide suicide pills in the case of a nuclear war brings Brown to national attention.

For a period of sixty years from 1906-1966 Brown University routinely had a live bear as a mascot that would make appearances at football games. This was quite a sight and during those sixty years a good deal of mishaps and adventures on campus involved the bear. This article is a humorous look at Brown's history of live bear mascots.

In 1811, a Russian immigrant, married into a wealthy, now land-poor family, leaves his wife and children in Bristol to embark on a hapless dream to develop the John Brown tract of land in the Adirondacks.

Starting in 1878, teenage friends on the East Side of Providence become inseparable, then go their separate ways when Martha weds. But even as Charlotte gains fame as the writer of The Yellow Wallpaper and as an activist for women's rights, she never forgets Martha.

Tells the story of the foundation of Brown's New Curriculum led by Ira Magaziner. It follows the concept of curricular change through its beginnings as an idea to the approval of its implementation.

The Scituate Reservoir, completed in 1926, is the largest body of fresh water in Rhode Island.

Before the advent of indoor plumbing, Brown's wells were the sites of much mischief. When the registrar refused to replace a missing bucket in 1868, students took to the Providence streets to protest its absence.

In Groton, Massachusetts, a young girl shows strange behaviors in 1671 and becomes known as the Groton Witch

Nathaniel Von Wallenstein Weinstein, through various errors involving transcripts and Brown and Tufts Universities, got into Brown University and eventually became Nathanael West, one of the most influential writers of the 20th century

One insult, four friends, twenty paces, and two shots. The story of the duel that rocked Brown's campus in the spring of 1857.

In 1890 Frank Levi Trimble and John Hope lived together at Brown and juggled jobs, academics and sports. Both meant to use their education to make a difference for their fellow African-Americans. Within a year, Trimble would be dead and Hope would carry on the dream

Tells the story of the lives of the women behind Carrie Tower and the Annmary Brown Memorial, two largely unnoticed fixtures on Brown University's campus. It details the lives of Carrie and Annmary Brown (daughters of Nicholas Brown) from birth to death, with a focus on their respective romances and their resulting pain from separation from each other

The story behind the Ann Mary Brown Memorial and the interactions between General Rush Hawkins and Margaret Stilwell.

In 1861 Henry Sweetser Burrage and his classmates at Brown feel life on campus begin to change as they face the Civil War.

Terrible train wreck at Richmond Switch! Full particulars of the fearful catastrophe!

In 1929, a Brown University legend was born: the venerable and nonexistent Professor Josiah Carberry. The two witty and prank-loving professors who created him hardly knew what madness would ensue

Seeking adventure, Enoch Carter Cloud goes to sea, but almost immediately regrets his decision

The Diary of Giuseppe Zambarano offers a glimpse into the life of a young immigrant from Italy in the late 1800s, who builds a business and family on Federal Hill in Providence.

The story of the last year of the Junior Burials, a ceremony in which the junior class collected the rhetoric textbooks by Professors Whately and Campbell, marched through the Brown campus and surrounding neighborhoods, then, having been borne to Fox Point in a hearse, were consigned to the cool waters of the Narragansett.

The story of Frederick Douglass ("Fritz") Pollard's trip to the Rose Bowl, the first African-American to achieve that goal

Lucy Truman Aldrich, born in 1869 to a prominent Rhode Island family, travels to China in 1923 and is kidnapped by bandits.

In 1970, Everett Howard Hunt Jr. '40 orchestrated the infamous Watergate Scandal. Yet through his personal letters and correspondencs, Hunt reveals himself to be far more than a criminal mastermind, but a deeply conflicted and complex man.

An exploration into the creation and genesis of Brown University's "Alma Mater" through the history of its author, James Andrew DeWolf, a patrician Rhode Islander who led a life of quiet nonconformity and great achievements through the scope of war, career, and songwriting.

If this is a tragedy, Martha Dickinson's life was one of placid visiting and versifying until she met her undoing at the hands of a cruel Russian. If this is a literary tale, her famous aunt Emily may owe at least a bit of her celebrity to a con artist. But if this is a romance, handsome Martha was thirty-six when she first set eyes on the love of her life.

All work and no play make Mimi Sherman a dull girl: the imagined experience of a Pembroke freshman in 1956 based on letters written home, ewspaper clippings and a photo album.

Miss Edna Krouner, of Wakefield, Rhode Island, embarks on her first year at Vassar College and learns about everything from crushes to Marxism and the Vote for Women.

A tale of piracy aboard the Vineyard, a brig, that set sail from New Orleans to Philadelphia on November 9, 1830

During the thick of the Civil Rights Novement, young Pembroker Judy Creedy spent the spring break of 'yr agitating for desegration in sweaty sit-ins and singing protest songs in a crowded Florida jail

The story of Timothy Whiting Bancroft, professor of English. He suffered a breakdown in 1883, but was able to return to teaching. In 1890 he disappeared and eventually his body was found in a pond in Cranston.

In 1893, with the nation in the throws of a financial panic, President Grover Cleveland slipped out of Washington, DC for a secret operation

The story of Rowland Hazard McLaughlin, Brown University student and soldier, killed in World War I.

In 1901, Chung Yik, one of the city's "best-known Chinese restauranteurs" and his wife, Cynthia Monki, survived the burning of their Charles Street apartment.

George and Dave are two Brown freshmen--one a charismatic businessman, the other a wiley engineer. Together they climb trees, crawl through manholes and heating tunnels, and hijack public phone lines in an attempt to string together Brown's first radio station

Cynthia Sprague Congdon's tales of being aboard ship then recording her life in East Greenwich, R.I. when she received word that her husband was lost at sea during a storm

In 1772 Solomon Drown, a 19-year-old student at Brown, travelled to New York City to deliberately contract small pox.

It is 1927, the last year before the Women's College will detach from Brown University to become a separate institution, Pembroke College. We follow along as Grace, the sole female Pre-Med, and her mischievous friend, Lily, timidly flirt with flapper styles

The story of the founding of Butler Hospital in Providence, R.I. or, as it was originally called, Butler Hospital for the Insane.

For a short period in the mid-18th century, the MacSparren farm flourished at the hands of an assortment of free, enslaved and indentured workers. In such a small-scale plantation, typical of colonial southern Rhode Island, the social hierarchy was constantly repositioning itself to accommodate emerging colonial ideas about race, sex, and religion. This story, based on the diary of Reverend MacSparren and other historical documents, imagines the personal relationships between those who worked and lived in such close quarters.

Late in the autumn of 1955, a swarm of starlings moved to invade and occupy Providence. But the humans fought back. Species rose against species, and a battle for control of the city began.

Helen Grimes, a housewife in Depression-era Providence, RI, wrote daily in a diary. In 1938, when a great hurricane struck New England without warning and devastated the region, her poetic voice and meticulous account provide a unique "in" to the storm and its impact on the city

Almost four hundred years ago, Roger Williams and his companions paddled down the Seekonk River and landed on the Rhode Island shore. Surrounded by wilderness, with no outside aid and scarce resources, these first settlers slowly raised their farms and homesteads, scavenged for food, and drafted laws for their community.

Mark Donohue, Class of 1959, began his racing career at Brown and won the Indianapolis 500 before he died in a fiery crash in 1975.

At the turn of the century, a deadly disease swept Europe and the Eastern United States. In the span of four years, George Brown, a farmer in rural Rhode Island, lost his wife and two daughters to the disease. Faced with the prospect of losing his only son, George is convinced to seek and destroy the alleged vampire responsible for these deaths ...

In 1882, Jeanie Lippett Weeden, a daughter of the ex Rhode Island governor Henry Lippett, takes a trip to Europe. On the boat, she meets and shares a brief flirtation with the ship's captain. This story was taken from her travelogue.

The story of the famous hurricane of 1938 as revealed by the meticulous notes of David Patten, managing editor of the Providence Evening Bulletin at the time.

Though much has been written about Providence's strangest literary figure, H.P. Lovecraft, little of it considers the precious documents of his childhood. This historical narrative weaves together scholarship, juvenalia, and status life details to illustrate the origins of Lovecraft's fascination with the archaic and abject.

On March 22, 1933, Brown Daily Herald editor wrote an editorial titled "War against war". The editors also drafted an anti-war petition to be sent to 145 colleges. This pacifism stirred up great debate.

The story of John Nicholas Brown's home "Windshield" on Fisher's Island and its destruction in the hurricane of 1938.

Perhaps the most important female figure in the history of Providence and Brown University, educator Sarah Doyle led a life dedicated to leadership and activism on the part of women and education that extended from the Brown campus to the nation while the 20th century was still new.

The story of a storm at sea from both the point of view of the Captain, John Congdon, and his wife on shore, Cynthia.

Lyn Crost was a war correspondent at a time when it was rare to see a female journalist working outside of the lifestyle section of a newspaper. During the final months of World War II, Crost marched with the 100th/442nd Battalion, the highly decorated Japanese-American battalion. Her articles were published in the Honolulu Star-Tribune: they are not merely reports of battles fought and medals awarded, but also portrayals of the human aspects of war and the toll it takes on those who witness it.