Coinciding with National Park Week 2025, this Washington Examiner series looks at how to celebrate America's national parks ...

The iconic Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” begins, “Listen, my children ...” And, sure enough, we have ...

Three figures apparently from the 1770s reappeared Monday during the Select Board meeting to remind residents of historic ...

Nobody planned to fire a “shot heard ‘round the world” at Lexington and Concord two-and-half centuries ago. It was, in truth, a haphazard event, on both the British and the ...

A small group of history buffs gathered in downtown Leesburg on Monday night to reflect on the impact that the “shot heard ...

NEW KENT — The 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry and his Hanover County volunteer militia’s march through New Kent County en ...

New England Minutemen, some dressed for war in their finest clothes and at least one fellow wearing his wedding suit, fought the Revolutionary War’s first battles against British soldiers at ...

LEXINGTON — ­flicker in the pre-dawn hours on the Battle Green in Lex­ington on the morning of April 19. It’s 1775 and the ...

And, sure enough, we have long told our kids and ourselves of the cinematic events in April 1775, when the famous silversmith ...

In the mid-afternoon of April 19, 1775, a group of men from the American colonies prepared to ambush retreating British ...