The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American revolutionary war. North Carolina Senate majority leader to resign from chamber Mysterious blue spiral ...

Isaiah Thomas, a revolutionary patriot and printer of the radical Boston newspaper, The Massachusetts Spy, snuck his printing ...

Whether the war had begun in Lexington or Concord, at the moment the first ... conjecture and local bias. By the end of April 19, 1775, however, no man who had stood on the field of battle had ...

American Antiquarian Society will have a "Start the Press" open house April 12 to celebrate printing of the Massachusetts Spy ...

On April 19, 1775, the "shot heard around the world" at the battles of Lexington and Concord launched the American Revolution. Colonists spread the word about the war through riders, bells and ...

Anniversaries come and go. But the 250 th marking of Lexington/Concord is a key milestone in world history. On the first ...

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.

By Henry HoweDirector, Fort Jackson Museum CommunityOn April 19, 1775, as British Regulars retreated from Lexington and ...

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 ...

With the shot heard around the world and launching the American Revolution fired in Massachusetts, this April will mark a major milestone for the Commonwealth. To honor the occasion, reenactors in ...