made famous decades later by Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Concord Hymn” commemorating the “shot heard ‘round the world” at the North Bridge. According to local lore, freed slaves, Italian and Irish ...

Emerson was living in Concord in 1837, when he drafted new words to the tune of a well-known Protestant hymn, "Old Hundredth." Emerson's poem, first sung at the dedication of a battle monument ...

The event was later termed 'The Shot Heard Round the World' by Ralph Waldo Emerson in his 1837 Concord Hymn, because it immediately escalated an already boiling conflict between colonial rebels ...

was later called "The Shot Heard Round the World" by Ralph Waldo Emerson in his 1837 Concord Hymn. According to the National Park Service, the musket balls were found in an area where British ...