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

April 2025 marks the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord—the day ordinary men changed the world. America Is Celebrating 250 Years!

Two towns in Massachusetts are fundamental to American history, but where the official first shot of the American Revolution happened has been debated for centuries.

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 of the Battle of Concord ...

April 19th marks the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord, the famous ‘shot heard “round the world.” The start of the American war of independence happened against a global ...