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The shot heard 'round the world rang out 250 years ago. These 10 'shots' aren't as memorable.
On April 19, 1775, a group of farmers organized as Minutemen in Concord, Mass., fired the "shot heard 'round the world" to ...
‘Bright Circle’ and ‘Margaret Fuller’: The Rise of the Transcendental Woman
Never mind Hawthorne and Thoreau— the women of mid-19th century New England had their own ambitions for writing and life.
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Remembering the economic reasons behind the American Revolution, 250 years later
“Free colonists, who are living in the colonies in the 1760s, think they're part of the greatest empire since Rome because ...
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Taking Courage from Our Emerson
I desire, even with profane words, if I may not use sacred, to indicate the heaven of this deity and to report what hints I ...
'Began a revolution': Lexington, Concord mark 250 years since 'shot heard round the world'
Reenactors showed thousands of people the story start of the American Revolutionary War and the "shot heard round the world" on its 250th anniversary.
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Mike Kirby: A revolutionary connection
Saturday marks the 250th anniversary of the “the shot heard ‘round the world,” as Ralph Waldo Emerson called it, the first ...
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East Longmeadow to celebrate American Revolution’s 250th anniversary
The story is well known. Battles between members of colonial militias and British soldiers broke out in the towns of ...
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‘Bright Circle’ and ‘Margaret Fuller’: The Rise of the Transcendental Woman
Mary Moody Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s aunt, was once asked whether she wanted tea, coffee or chocolate. She replied: “All.” Would she, wondered her hostess, want them in separate cups?