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On April 21, 1775, The New-Hampshire Gazette and Historical Chronicle published an article titled “Bloody News,” reporting the first hostilities of what would become the Revolutionary War. On April 19, 1775, British troops fired on the men of the Lexington Company who had already begun to disperse, beginning an unplanned and bloody battle. The descriptions …
The following is a guest post by Regan Chambers-Kleiner who recently interned at the Library in the Serial and Government Publications Division as a part of the Archives, History and Heritage Advanced Internship Program (AHHA). From September to November, I worked as an intern with the Library’s AHHA program. My project was to review and …