Rhode Island may be the smallest state in the U.S., but the Ocean State packs in a lot of attractions worth seeing, from its ...

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 ...

“ 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 ...

There are plenty of Rhode Island towns that promise that irresistible New England charm we can't get enough of; just look at Coventry, a rural gem near the coast with lots of outdoor fun and historic ...

Sure, you know Rhode Island is the birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution. But did you know it had the first public roller rink?

Shakespeare, late in his career, braided many of his preoccupations—love, the machinations of court, magic, low comedy, visual spectacle, theatre itself—into what may be his culminant work, "The ...