Rhode Island
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15.5K1Obadiah Holmes, The Baptist Martyr The Puritans Should Have Left Alone
The Puritan leaders of Massachusetts viewed Obadiah Holmes as a loathsome Baptist, and they ordered him whipped 30 times in public. They...
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6.2K2How Providence’s Federal Hill Got Its Name
In 1788, Providence, R.I.’s Federal Hill officially got its name. In June of 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify...
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4.6K1J.J. Van Alen Finds a Wife — But Not His Own
J.J. Van Alen served as a lightning rod for controversy his whole life. But never more so than when he took up...
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6.5K14Old Roger Williams Tries To Stop King Philip’s War
On March 29, 1676, old Roger Williams was one of 30 men who remained in the town of Providence. Most of the...
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5.9K3Lillian Gilbreth, Genius in the Art of Living
Lillian Gilbreth hated the best-selling book written about her in 1948 because it depicted her as a sweet, stay-at-home mom who deferred...
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9.8K3James DeWolf, the RI Senator Who Murdered a Slave and Got Away With It
James DeWolf died the second richest man in America after accumulating a fortune from buying, selling and – in one case –...
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13.2K9The 1673 Murder of Rebecca Cornell and the ‘Good Fire’
On the night of February 8, 1673, Thomas Cornell rushed into the sitting room where he had earlier left his mother Rebecca...
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7.2K2The Care and Feeding of Newport Cottages in 1883
In 1883, Newport cottages had yet to reach their grand peak. But the well-established cottagers at the Rhode Island resort presented many...
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9.9K3Six Colonial Homes by Wallace Nutting
Wallace Nutting was a dyspeptic minister so overwhelmed by urban life and modern values that he led countless Americans into a nostalgic...
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28.8K7How To Talk Rhode Island
To talk Rhode Island requires more than a passing knowledge of the expression ‘No school Fosta Glosta’ or the difference between a...
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