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.
George Washington’s Narrow Escapes
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.
It's one of the oldest folk ballads in our national songbook, but where did it come from? The answer is complex, multi-layered, American.
When John Adams was elected president, and Thomas Jefferson as vice president, each came to see the other as a traitor. Out of their enmity grew our modern political system.
An interview with the famed suffragette, Alice Paul
A century after the guns fell silent along the Western Front, the work they did there remains of incalculable importance to the age we inhabit and the people we are.