With friends like Richard Cutts, James Madison didn’t need enemies. Though Cutts was the rare New Englander who supported Mr. Madison’s War,...
The American Revolution was to some extent a fight over the big, stupid, slow-moving codfish. Codfish were by far colonial New England’s...
Alvah Richard couldn’t believe that fanatical Irish-American army was back. For the second time in four years, the self-proclaimed Irish Republican Army...
During World War II, Rhode Island residents could hear the roar of PT boat engines from Narragansett Bay all day and see...
There isn’t much that’s fun about taxes, but we thought we’d try to find something. So we found seven fun — well,...
Certain Continental Army facts are implanted in the minds of U.S. schoolchildren at a young age: How patriot farmers dropped their plows...