During World War II, Rhode Island residents could hear the roar of PT boat engines from Narragansett Bay all day and see...
Jolly Jane Toppan killed at least 31 people between 1880 and 1901, but the doctors who hired her thought she was one...
On March 29, 1676, old Roger Williams was one of 30 men who remained in the town of Providence. Most of the...
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...
Samuel Sewall is best known as one of the nine judges who condemned witches to death in the Salem witch trials of...
Once the Metropolitan Museum of Art discovered the King Tut ticket scam in 1979, museum officials easily detected the fakes. That’s because...