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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.