A dispute that’s been going on for centuries has heated up again as the neighboring towns plan competing celebrations to mark ...

The towns of Lexington and Concord are gearing up for a weekend full of celebration next month for the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War. The historic sites of the first battle of the ...

It was the events on April 19, 1775, celebrated annually as Patriot's Day in Massachusetts, that gave the colonists their ...

Starting Saturday morning, the towns of Concord and Lexington will host a series of tours and reenactments that commemorate the very first battles of the American Revolution and honor the soldiers ...

The first known reenactment of the battles took place half a century after the actual event. For the centennial of the battles, President Ulysses S. Grant attended a reenactment in Lexington and ...

MY FATHER TOOK ME TO MY VERY FIRST REENACTMENT AS A BABY ... John Parker during a reenactment on the 250th anniversary of the battle in Lexington, often known as "the shot heard round the world." ...

“The first shots were fired in Lexington. For historians, this matter is not in dispute,” said Allison, who is also the president of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. “I don’t know ...

Lexington Avenue, if you didn’t know, is named after the Battle of Lexington that, along with Concord, would come to be recognized as the beginning of the American War of Independence.