Rhode Island may be the smallest state in the ... The center of society in Providence during the Colonial and early Federal periods, Benefit Street remains a vibrant, tree-lined city street ...

How a pair of Providence city councilors bucked the mayor—and the trend of homelessness criminalization nationwide—to open an ...

After years of oppressive British policies which stifled commerce in Narragansett Bay and surrounding communities, the Colony of R.I. and Providence Plantations renounced allegiance to the Crown on ...