Since 19 April 1775, Lexington and Concord have been fused in Americans’ cultural memory. Yet Lexington was no Concord. The towns’ social, demographic, political, religious, and ideological differences shed light on their radically different responses to imperial crises as well as on the shared motivations that prompted both—ultimately—to take up arms.

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2012

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Bill Fowler, member of the editorial board of The New England Quarterly, Mary Babson Fuhrer, and Robert A. Gross discuss Fuhrer's NEQ article and Gross's 1976 book, The Minutemen and Their World. Our panelists discuss the two colonial towns, their similarities and differences, and key factors that led to the famous battles between the English and the colonists on April 19, 1775.

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