On July 8th, 1663, 27 years after Roger Williams arrived in the colony, King Charles II gave Rhode Island its first royal ...

As we prepare to celebrate the founding of this nation, let’s keep this in mind: Religious liberty is fundamental to American ...

With no portraits of Rhode Island theologian Roger Williams to go by, sculptor based image on the Splendid Splinter ...

COMMENTARY In Roger Williams' Rhode Island, banning books is a departure from our heritage Bills recently introduced in the General Assembly would make it harder to take books off of public ...

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Alice, Ginny and Kate, the Roger Williams Park Zoo’s beloved African elephant trio, will leave Rhode Island in late 2027.

NORTH KINGSTOWN − An East Greenwich couple has bought the island in Wickford Harbor that was once owned by a Narragansett sachem, and then Rhode Island founder Roger Williams. On Aug. 29, Daniel ...

What role did Mary Williams play in early Rhode Island? Months later, after Roger Williams took refuge in what is now Rhode Island, Mary Williams traveled south and started a new life there with him.

A professor of film at both the University of Rhode Island and Roger Williams University, Marshall launched the nonprofit Flickers, the Newport Film Society & Arts Collaborative, in 1981.