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The Minutemen and Their World is a history of 18th-century Concord, a Massachusetts town located approximately 20 miles west of Boston. Robert A. Gross, describes his book as part of the “new social history”, a trend in historical scholarship in the 1960s and 1970s that investigated the lives of everyday citizens rather than important political figures, often using methods developed in other social sciences. With the Battle of Lexington and Concord as focal points, the author sets out to explain how those events fit into town life in Lexington and Concord.

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