1775. Why was there fighting at Concord’s North Bridge, and at Lexington Common earlier that morning? Britain’s colonies had enjoyed degrees of self-rule, some of them for a century and a half.

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ...

Average assessment: In 1775, Lexington was a dairy community. It was also considered a poor town. The average estate was assessed at 11 pounds. In Concord and Andover, estates were assessed at ...

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

Thousands of people from all over flocked to Lexington and Concord on Saturday, taking in reenactments of the first fights of the Revolution while reflecting on the lessons of the momentous day ...

On April 19, our nation commemorated the 250th anniversary of the 1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord, the military engagement between a column of British Regulars and a gathering swarm of ...

After the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, the Massachusetts militia organized into longer-serving ...

What did it feel like in Lexington and Concord, the two Massachusetts towns where, on one April day in 1775, the patriots and British redcoats first exchanged fire? Larissa Sasgen, John Nichols ...

In the early morning of April 19, 1775, British troops clashed with American colonists in the fateful Battles of Lexington and Concord. It marked the beginning of the Revolutionary War and the ...

The 250th anniversary of the April 19, 1775 battles of Lexington and Concord was commemorated Saturday ... Participants raised a 13-star American flag at the World War II memorial and read a ...

The battle, which left eight Americans dead and 10 wounded, marks the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord ... early morning of April 19, 1775, and gathered about 14 miles ...