Two hundred and fifty years ago today, the battles of Lexington and Concord were fought. As battles go, they didn’t amount to ...

Saturday marks the 250th anniversary of the “the shot heard ‘round the world,” as Ralph Waldo Emerson called it, the first ...

April 19, 2025 is the publication date of this column and, more auspiciously, the 250th anniversary of the start of the ...

Indiana National Guard soldiers and airmen celebrated the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the Revolutionary War this week as they aim to continue carrying on the legacy of citizen soldiers.

The groups point out that last May, “these irreplaceable sites of national historic significance were designated by the ...

DOVER ‒ A rally is being planned for 11 a.m. April 19 on the square in downtown Dover. The event will run through 12:30 p.m.

Never mind Hawthorne and Thoreau— the women of mid-19th century New England had their own ambitions for writing and life.

“Free colonists, who are living in the colonies in the 1760s, think they're part of the greatest empire since Rome because ...

In the 1950 recording, preserved by GBH Archives, a Waltham doctor recalled his great-grandmother’s childhood account of the chaos on the first day of the Revolutionary War.

Harvard President Alan Garber stated Monday that he would not comply with the Trump administration’s outrageous list of demands, which include reporting to the federal government the identities of ...

The story is well known. Battles between members of colonial militias and British soldiers broke out in the towns of ...