As Rhode Island gets ready for America's 250th birthday, some wonder whether we're investing enough into the tourism ...

Options exist to start your day by harkening back to revolutionary times with readings of the Declaration of Independence and ... of two representatives from Rhode Island who signed the document.

Bills recently introduced in the General Assembly would make it harder to take books off of public shelves by requiring that people challenging reading materials live near the school or library ...

This elegant but simple system stood in contrast to the nearly unshackled power of the British king, who ruled over the American colonies before independence ... court in Rhode Island sided ...

This elegant but simple system stood in contrast to the nearly unshackled power of the British king, who ruled over the American colonies before independence ... court in Rhode Island sided ...

March 7, 1707, was the birthday of Stephen Hopkins, perhaps the most famous Rhode Islander from the colonial period. One of the most accomplished politicians in the state’s history, Hopkin’s resume ...

The vast island, with a population of just 57,000 ... In 2009, it won the right to declare full independence through a referendum, though it has not done so out of concern living standards ...

Katie: In 1585, Queen Elizabeth the First gave Walter Raleigh permission to set up a colony on Roanoke Island ... enough and formally wrote a Declaration of Independence from Britain, written ...

Thomas Jefferson called slavery a “hideous blot” and “a moral depravity,” but held hundreds of Africans captive at Monticello. He condemned the trade in African bodies in the first draft of the ...

The United States of America initially consisted of 13 states that had been British colonies until their independence was declared in 1776 and verified by the Treaty of Paris in 1783: New Hampshire, ...