Previously unknown, a map drawn by Lord Percy, the British commander at Lexington, sheds new light on the perilous retreat to Boston 250 years ago this month.
What began as a civil war within the British Empire continued until it became a wider conflict affecting peoples and countries across Europe and North America.
Overshadowed in memory by Lexington and Concord, the Massachusetts town of Menotomy saw the most violent and deadly fighting on April 19, 1775.
This special issue looks at the dramatic and momentous events that occurred 250 years ago this month.
“Now the war has begun and no one knows when it will end,” said one minuteman after the fight.
THE EXTRAORDINARY ORIGINAL DRAWINGS OF THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE
An interview with the famed suffragette, Alice Paul
The noted writer and educator tells of his boyhood in the West Virginia town of Piedmont, where African Americans were second-class citizens, but family pride ran deep.
A novelist who has just spent several years studying Eleanor Roosevelt, Lucy Rutherfurd, and Missy LeHand tells a moving story of love: public and private, given and withheld.
Badly disguised as Indians, a rowdy group of patriotic vandals kicked a revolution into motion.
We can take pride in our nation, not as we pretend to a commission from God and a sacred destiny, but as we struggle to fulfill our deepest values in an inscrutable world.