Almost 22% of U.S. residents age 5 and older spoke a language other than English at home, double the share from four decades ...

Founders knew well why Roger Williams founded Rhode Island (1638). As integral to our First Amendment, Jefferson adapted from William’s famous treatise on persecution his “wall of separation ...

Fabrics retailer Joann will close its last remaining stores, 444 locations, at the end of May. It's holding ...

“What cheer?” is featured on Providence’s official seal. The phrase is a reference to local mythos, in which the Narragansett welcomed Roger Williams, founder of the Rhode Island colony, by saying ...

Chris Powell, a retired DEM biologist who co-founded the Conanicut Island Raptor ... egrets were nesting in larger numbers. The largest colony of glossy ibises known to have occurred in Rhode Island, ...

after which he founded Rhode Island, a refuge for those seeking religious liberty. Keywords Roger Williams, Rhode Island, religious freedom, Massachusetts Bay Colony, democracy, conscience ...

the English-born minister who founded Rhode Island after being booted from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his views. And now, the church’s Texas-born pastor, the Rev. Jamie P. Washam ...

Of course, Rev. Roger Williams who founded Rhode Island came up with similar freedoms almost a century earlier, on a smaller scale. But in our age of religious diversity and political pluralism ...

When the company closed, its business records were donated to Harvard University, design drawings were given to the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Old Colony History Museum acquired the ...

Half a century before the Pilgrims set sail, French Protestants — Huguenots — established a colony in Florida ... In 1635, Roger Williams founded Rhode Island and allowed freedom of religion ...