400 MILES OF SPARKLING SHORELINE IS WHY RHODE ISLAND IS CALLED THE OCEAN STATE ... TO THE TOWN OF TIVERTON ON A TANK AND TAKE IN THE COLONIAL CHARM THE HISTORIC DISTRICT OF IN FOUR CORNERS IS ...

Though Rhode Island’s Quaker population was starting to question slavery and the relatively young colony was looking for ways to differentiate itself from neighboring Massachusetts, the statute ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A judge has ruled that Colonial court records dating to the mid-1700s are the property of the State of Rhode Island and the state alone. Superior Court Judge Maureen Keough ...

On this day in 1790, Rhode Island became the 13th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution, thereby becoming the last of the original founding colonies to enter the Union. Rhode Island was the only ...

In this, the second in a series on the committee and its work, The Herald examines the context of slavery in colonial Rhode Island and some of the committee's educational undertakings. Though North ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — 249 years ago Sunday, Rhode Island became the first of the thirteen colonies to formally declare its independence from Great Britain. On May 4, 1776, delegates gathered ...