Present in a Painting: An Introduction to Adams and Jefferson

Longfellow's elegy for the dead meets Lazarus's hymn to the living—together marking a religious liberty unique to America, and still unfolding.

Washington's letters to American Jews reveal a nation built on both unity and religious difference. Why does the Newport letter loom larger than the rest?

Washington’s Rhode Island visit reflected the same principle behind his outreach to religious minorities: no member of the Union was too small to belong.

How Rhode Island's tradition of religious liberty and distrust of centralized power shaped its reluctant path to ratifying the Constitution.