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There's More to That A Smithsonian magazine special report Inside the steeple of Old North Church and among the Southern Colonies, less familiar stories of the events from 250 years ago emerge Two hundred and fifty years ago this month, silversmith Paul Revere took to his horse on a midnight ride to warn American rebels that British troops were approaching. The famous ride and an ensuing battle at Lexington and Concord touched off the American Revolution.

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A baseball diamond buried long ago at Manzanar has been rebuilt to honor the Americans who once played the sport there Baseball was a way of life in the camps that incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II. The United States government stripped the Americans who lived in these camps of their liberties, but for those communities, having played the game for generations, baseball brought them closer to each other and, paradoxically, to their country.