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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.
Classic Essays from Our Archives
FDR and His Women | March 2003, Vol 54, No 1
By Ellen FeldmanA 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.
"I Had Prayed to God That This Thing Was Fiction…" | February 1990, Vol 41, No 1
By William WilsonHe didn’t want the job, but felt he should do it. For the first time, the soldier who tracked down the My Lai story for the office of the inspector general in 1969 tells what it was like to do some of this era’s grimmest detective work.
Lincoln and Presidential Character | October 2020, Vol 65, No 6
By David S. ReynoldsAbraham Lincoln learned much of what made him a great president — honesty, sincerity, toughness, and humility — from his early reading and from studying the lives of Washington and Franklin.
Lincoln As Commander in Chief | Winter 2009, Vol 70, No 3
By James M. McPhersonEven though he had no military training, Lincoln quickly rose to become one of America’s most talented commanders.
America: Experiment or Destiny? | June 1977, Vol 28, No 4
By Arthur Schlesinger Jr.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.
Range Practice | Februrary 1968, Vol 70, No 3
By Dean AchesonOur former Secretary of State recalls his service fifty years ago in the Connecticut National Guard—asthmatic horses, a ubiquitous major, and a memorable
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