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Thousands of people are expected to turn out on April 19 as Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, and Arlington commemorate their ...
On April 18, as night falls over Boston, Paul Revere will once again race from Boston to warn patriots that British regulars ...
Paul Revere, William Dawes, and others rode to Lexington, Massachusetts, warning minutemen and households about the approach ...
Anniversaries come and go. But the 250 th marking of Lexington/Concord is a key milestone in world history. On the first ...
The community is invited to join in as Townsend commemorates the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, ...
The king of England's "Red Coat" British soldiers engaged with a motley focused group of providential farmers, shopkeepers ...
What happened in April 1775 in and near Boston is an important chapter of the story of why, how and by whom America was birthed.
It was the events on April 19, 1775, celebrated annually as Patriot's Day in Massachusetts, that gave the colonists their first victory against the Crown, and after that there was no turning back: the ...
Lexington craftsman Ben Soule spent three years creating a detailed replica of the town's 1775 meeting house, now on display ahead of the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington.
On April 19, 1775, the "shot heard around the world" at the battles of Lexington and Concord launched the American Revolution ...
Isaiah Thomas, a revolutionary patriot and printer of the radical Boston newspaper, The Massachusetts Spy, snuck his printing ...
American Antiquarian Society will have a "Start the Press" open house April 12 to celebrate printing of the Massachusetts Spy ...