April 2025 marks 250 years since the momentous events at Lexington and Concord—the opening salvos of the American Revolution.

LEXINGTON — Lois Voisine, 66, of Nashua, arrived on Lexington Battle Green at 1 a.m., eagerly anticipating the reenactment of ...

“The colonists only wanted to turn back the clock to 1763,” he said.Stacy Schiff, a Pulitzer Prize winning historian whose books include biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Samuel ...

Schiff, the author of “The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams,” is at work on a book about ... “compared to those who with open arms invite you into a fellowship.” The approaches have changed ...

Witnesses remembered some British officers yelled, "Throw down your arms, ye villains ... include biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Samuel Adams, said Lexington and Concord "galvanized opinion ...

"Lay down your arms, disperse and return to your homes ... Thomas Gage was sending troops to try to capture John Hancock and Samuel Adams, who were staying in Lexington and the firearms and ...

Dawes and Revere initially took different routes to Lexington, a few miles east of Concord, where two key revolutionary leaders, Samuel Adams and John Hancock ... In their scarlet coats, as opposed to ...