Brian Stinson is a historian and researcher. He lives in Portsmouth, R.I. This November, Rhode Island voters will be asked to make an important decision concerning the official state name. Our state’s ...
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 ...
Is May 4 Rhode Island Independence Day? Some calendars might say so, but, in short, not really. It is the 246th anniversary of passage of the Rhode Island Act of Renunciation on May 4, 1776. The act ...