Look for the looming London plane with branches thick as tree trunks. It’s been anchored in East Cambridge for centuries – a ...

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 ...

The 250th anniversary of the American Revolution seems a good time to revisit the story of Fort Putnam and its role in ...

Newly released watercolor stamps from the USPS commemorate the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington, Concord and ...

Newly released watercolor stamps from the USPS commemorate the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington, Concord and ...

"We decided to do some live fire studies to better understand the ballistics of the guns and that lead to finding all of the ...

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

The day offers an opportunity to reflect on this seminal moment in history but also consider what this fight means today.

For 250 years, historians have argued over who fired first at the Battle of Lexington, when Massachusetts militiamen faced British soldiers about 20 miles west of Boston.

The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the ...

For the 250th anniversary of Revere’s midnight ride, a reporter set out to learn what the route revealed about Boston’s ...

For such a fabled journey, you might think Paul Revere’s route would be lined with reminders of his epic dash.