Two towns in Massachusetts are fundamental to American history, but where the official first shot of the American Revolution ...

It's the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, and it's still not clear who fired the first shot of the ...

The State of Hawaii held an opening ceremony for the Hawaii 250th Commemoration, on the 250th Anniversary of the first battle ...

Reenactors showed thousands of people the story start of the American Revolutionary War and the "shot heard round the world" ...

As they marched, their path dimly lit by torches, they heard the clanging of bells, the firing of alarm guns, and drums. Through the trees, the British soldiers spotted large bonfires in the distance.

But even though I have a hard time envisioning these historic events occurring in my hometown as it is today, sometimes when ...

Patriots’ Day weekend is truly one of the great New England rites of spring.  A small army of Islanders marched off to Lexington and Concord to observe the re-enactments and the parades on the 250th ...

The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the ...

Reenactments, parades and other festivities in two Massachusetts communities mark 250 years since the "shot heard 'round the world" on Saturday.

And fired the shot heard round the world. So goes the first stanza of a hymn written by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1837 and sung to the tune of “Old Hundredth” for the dedication of an obelisk at the site ...

Even though there were dozens of critical events leading up to the shooting war that began on April 19, 1775, in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington ... the shot heard round the world.'" ...