And fired the shot heard round the world. So goes the first stanza of a hymn written by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1837 and sung to the tune of “Old Hundredth” for the dedication of an obelisk at the site ...

The day ended with performances — Lexington’s Bicentennial Band, formed in 1974 in preparation for the 200th anniversary of ...

This month marks the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, where minutemen fought British soldiers who ...

Hundreds gathered Saturday on the Lexington Battle Green to watch the reenactment of the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

Reenactors showed thousands of people the story start of the American Revolutionary War and the "shot heard round the world" ...

In Lexington, British drums sounded from the east on Massachusetts Avenue. More than 50 stern-faced locals stood with muskets ...

Thousands of people from all over flocked to Lexington and Concord on Saturday, taking in reenactments of the first fights of ...

When constituting what a “well-regulated militia,” looks like, look no further than the first armed conflict of the War of ...

Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts ...