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Concord’s Crisis: A Town Pushed to the Edge Long Before the Revolution

The featured image brings together images of Dr. Robert A. Gross and Adel Aali from the interview, superimposed on the Betsy Ross flag, alongside picture of "The Minute Man", by Daniel Chester French (1875), Concord — commonly known as the “Concord Minute Man.”

Updated: May 21, 2026 Introduction In this interview: “And they hold a muster and they don’t get enough people.” Watch this section in the video below (00:11:45). Concord, Massachusetts, on the eve of the American Revolution, was far from a small simple farming town. Beneath its seemingly quiet rural setting lay a community in social, […]