At the end of Admiral Street in Providence, next to some soccer fields and just up the street from a Dunkin', is a little yellow house that is clearly from another era. The 2½-story gable house, with ...

Today in U.S. 1776 - First amphibious landing operation. Continental naval squadron under Commodore Esek Hopkins lands Sailors and Marines, commanded by Captain Samuel Nicholas, on New Providence ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Haus of Glitter Dance Company presents The Historical Fantasy of Esek Hopkins ...

On a grassy isle between ball fields and the units of the Chad Brown Housing Project lies the Esek Hopkins house, one of the oldest in Providence, constructed in 1730. Once the home of the first ...

Providence city councilors may soon consider a name change for one of the city's middle schools. On Wednesday, the school board unanimously voted in favor of renaming Esek Hopkins middle school, ...

PROVIDENCE -- The Providence schools superintendent and Rhode Island’s education commissioner on Thursday came out in support of renaming the city’s Esek Hopkins Middle School because the Continental ...

This coming week, it will be exactly 241 years since the Frigate Warren was anchored off Providence, R.I. Warren was the first of the 13 frigates authorized by the Continental Congress after we ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — Beloved middle school dean Frederick Lovegrove passed away Wednesday, Providence Public Schools announced. “I am writing to inform you of a sudden and painful loss to the ...

PROVIDENCE — Some activists tear down memorials to white supremacy. The Haus of Glitter Dance Company moved into one. The company’s five co-directors — Assitan Coulibaly, Anthony Andrade, Steven ...

The United States’ first whistleblowers emerged not from a corporate office or intelligence agency, but from the deck of a warship in the midst of the American Revolution. In 1777, officers of the ...