PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A judge has ruled that Colonial court records dating to the mid-1700s are the property of the State of Rhode Island and the state alone. Superior Court Judge Maureen Keough ruled ...

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400 MILES OF SPARKLING SHORELINE IS WHY RHODE ISLAND IS CALLED THE OCEAN STATE LITTLE INLETS AND LARGE BAYS LAPPING THE COAST HAVE ATTRACTED VISITORS AND SETTLERS FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS TRAVEL TO 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 ...

British ambassador to the United States Lord James Bryce, in his late-19th century analysis of our political institutions, "The American Commonwealth," called Rhode Island the American state “which ...

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.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Colonial-era document that went missing three decades ago is back in possession of the Rhode Island state archives. The recovered document is what’s called a “minute book”, ...

During the Colonial era, taverns were a place for weary travelers to sleep, and a spot for locals to share news and debate. Hundreds of years later, some of them are still serving up great food and ...