Silver & Spindles Blog

What is the Lippitt House Museum Civics Program for English Language Learners and how did it get started?

Alexander Graham Bell, one of Jeanie Lippitt's teachers, left a complicated legacy in Deaf history.

How much do you know about deafness? How are sign languages different from “flipping fingers”? How did “Deaf” become a cultural identity?

What did oralist education mean for the broader deaf population in RI in the 19th century? 

Jeanie Lippitt and her mother Mary Ann, along with Alexander Graham Bell, were important figures the 19th century deaf education.

A series about the history of equal rights for deaf education and the Lippitt family’s contributions to that history.

Lippitt House Museum's Civics Program for English Language Learners connects history with our responsibilities today.

Lippitt House was passed down through a line of women who acted as stewards of family tradition and conservators of the property.

Lippitt House Museum is a ‘hidden’ attraction—it is one of the few historic houses in the city that you can tour inside.

In 1876, the eyes of every American were trained on the heart of Philadelphia as a celebration for the ages played out from May to...