The British were met with armed resistance in Lexington and Concord in what would be the first skirmishes in the Revolutionary War, made famous decades later by Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Concord Hymn” ...

While the Patriots were ultimately victorious in the American Revolution, choosing sides and deciding whether to fight in the war was far ... at the battles of Lexington, Concord and Bunker ...

Don Wildman hops across the Atlantic from American History Hit to Echoes of History to help Matt Lewis understand how two tiny towns became the spark that lit the fire of the American War of ...

Mount your steed (or get in your car) and dash along the route traversed by Paul Revere to Lexington and Concord for this ...

the Battle of Lexington and Concord, at the start of the Revolutionary War; the presence of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau and Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Alcotts during the middle of ...

On April 19, 1775, the battles of Lexington and Concord kicked off the American Revolutionary War. In 2025, Massachusetts will mark 250 years since the fight for independence began in our own ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns will visit Lexington and Concord on April 17 to discuss his new documentary, "The American Revolution." ...

In 1775, Paul Revere famously rode through Boston to warn of the British arrival, and the Revolutionary War officially started in Massachusetts at the Battle of Lexington and Concord on April 19 ...

The breadth of the history available to those who come to Lexington and Concord is vast. Enjoy war history? This is the place to come. Enjoy great American authors? This is the place to come.

Fighting first broke out in Lexington (the fabled "shot heard round the world"), then in Concord. The day ended in a British retreat to Boston. But the war would be long — John Adams had ...