Feel the sense of what it was like to be on the ground at the battlegrounds where the American Revolution was fought.

Examiner Ralph Waldo Emerson, by the numbers Let’s give literary thanks to the author of “Self-Reliance,” born May 25, 1803, and buried in Concord’s Sleepy Hollow cemetery.

Today, many people do not know Ralph Waldo Emerson, and many of those who do, consider him at best a 19th-century transcendentalist or, at worst, the Dale Carnegie of belles lettres.

American author Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his famous 1837 poem “Concord Hymn,” included the memorable lines about the battle at the Concord River: “By the rude bridge that arched the flood ...

On April 19, 1775, a group of farmers organized as Minutemen in Concord, Mass., fired the “shot heard 'round the world” to mark the start of the American Revolution. Ralph Waldo Emerson first ...

The battles at Lexington and Concord are collectively known as “the shot heard 'round the world,” a phrase traced back to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1837 poem, “ Concord Hymn.” ...

Of the hundreds of flags made for fighting units during the war, about 30 are known to still exist, according to Taub. He assembled 17, borrowing from private and institutional collections. To his ...

– The State of Hawaii held an opening ceremony for the Hawaii 250th Commemoration, on the 250th Anniversary of the first battle of the Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord; the event was ...

Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote the phrase "the shot heard around the world" in his Concord Hymn that he wrote for a monument dedication at the battle site.

That “shot heard round the world”, as Ralph Waldo Emerson called it in his “Concord Hymn”, has echoed down the generations to other bloody April Nineteenths.

A rare recording has resurfaced from the repository of GBH Archives. It’s the voice of the late Dr. Alfred Worcester of Waltham, who at age 95, shared an eyewitness account of the first Patriots’ Day, ...