Rep. Joseph McNamara believes that the 1663 royal charter allows Rhode Island to avoid federal tariffs on cars and other imported goods by establishing its own free trade zones. While it’s debatable ...

You’ll find ceremonial sites left by the Narragansett and Niantic tribes, as well as relics of Colonial farmers and signs of beavers at work.

While many of the Ocean State’s regional names are a nod to Narragansett Indian Tribe words, others came from English ...

“Now we are down to the level of what events can we have, getting people here only for a short period of ... depicts the 1st Rhode Island Regiment. “We don’t have a colonial Williamsburg ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

Meanwhile, just over 16 percent of those living in Maine, Vermont, and Rhode Island claim Irish ... to North America earlier, during the colonial period, were Protestants and aligned with England ...

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At that point, the Connecticut colony attempted to usurp portions of present-day Rhode Island, issuing a proclamation ... Around that era, the General Assembly also extended the town’s ...

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Many of the things that fill our houses today also filled the homes of colonial Rhode Islanders ... The mid-1700s was considered to be the golden Age of Rhode Island furniture making and it was ...

Gomes’ (Tabu, Arabian Nights) globe-trotting tale of unrequited love is set in 1917 colonial Burma. Edward ... Jesse ...