This gun was carried by John Munroe as he joined other colonial militiamen in facing down British troops on Lexington Green.

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The 250th anniversary of the American Revolution seems a good time to revisit the story of Fort Putnam and its role in ...

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

Of the 58,220 U.S. military service members who died in Vietnam, more than 1,300 were from Massachusetts. These are the ...

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

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In “Darkenbloom,” by the Austrian novelist Eva Menasse, the citizens of a European border town have secrets they’d prefer to forget.

Soldiers and civilians ... grim picture of the revolutionary soldier’s experience on many other fronts, over several years. On Long Island, the 15-year-old Martin arrived late on a battlefield ...