Some exhibits and events are already underway in Providence and Newport to mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of ...

HISTORY Murderous 1600s pirate hid out in US colonies, including Rhode Island Newly surfaced documents strengthen the case that English buccaneer Henry Every — the target of the first worldwide ...

Rhode Island was the first state to renounce its allegiance to the British Empire on May 4, 1776. It would also be the last state to ratify the new U.S. Constitution.

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.