The smallest state in the United States, Rhode Island is only about 48 miles long and 37 miles wide. It’s bordered by Massachusetts in the north and east, the Atlantic Ocean in the south, and ...

As America marks its 250th anniversary, we explore outsized role Rhode Island played in the Revolution. Hosts Pamela Watts and David Wright trace the Ocean State's path to independence from the ...

As a young man in Virginia, Thomas Jefferson pursues an education based on the ideals of the Enlightenment. After leaving Washington, Thomas Jefferson spent the last two decades of his life at ...

In January 1777, Baltimore printer Mary Katharine Goddard published the first copies of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers’ names. By then, the document was already old news.

The Declaration of Independence, with its block of cursive letters scrawled onto parchment, looks like a relic from the distant past. Likewise, you might think the 27 grievances against King George ...