More than three years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence and more than a year before the Boston Tea Party, ...

Like other bodies of water in Rhode Island, the Sakonnet River’s name is a misnomer. What is the history behind it?

George Washington visited Rhode Island four times, and during one of those trips, he helped shape the United States into the ...

Brown Confronts Slavery, Second in a series. Though the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice was expected to submit its report to President Ruth Simmons this spring, it is unclear when ...

“ THE meaning of Rhode Island ” implies a problem, the solution of which is attempted in every comprehensive work on American history, but which still remains a problem to those who are trying to ...

Introduction: "The Generall Having Life in Perticulars" -- Ch. 1. Customary Ways and Radical Ideas in the Original Town -- Ch. 2. The Colonial Governments in the Seventeenth Century -- Ch. 3.