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 ...

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. -- 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 ...

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 ...

While other Gilded Age summer colonies have ossified into museum pieces, Watch Hill, Rhode Island, retains all the magnificence of its original heyday, along with a low-key attitude and tremendous ...