The Minutemen and their World, by Robert Gross, revised and expanded edition

March 23, 2025 2:00 – 4:00 in the Goodwin Forum at the Concord Main Library.  In this live session Concord resident, Robert Gross, will be interviewed by Diane Proctor, followed by questions from the audience.

This book is an intensive and wide-ranging study of the community of Concord, Massachusetts, the city in which the famed “shot heard round the world” was fired on April 19, 1775. Gross investigates daily life in the community at the time, helping readers understand citizens’ (and future soldiers) daily routines, worldview, and even hopes and dreams as he relates their relationship to the war in which the community they called home would soon be engulfed. He looks as well at the legacy of the war in the town, taking a brief look at its post-Revolution existence and place in American memory. The result is a well-rounded and lively account of a community before, during, and after the Revolution. (Review taken from The Historians Manifesto)