Robert A. Gross is the Draper Professor of Early American History at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Books and Libraries in Thoreau's Concord and editor of In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion.
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Winner of the Bancroft Prize On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. The 'shot heard round the world' catapulted this sleepy New England town into the midst of revolutionary fervor, and Concord ... SEE MORE