Art is not history, but how we imagine events to have happened is often shaped by artistic depictions. Since depictions change over time, a history of how an event is imagined develops. This is the case with the Battle of Lexington that took place on April 19, 1775. Within a few days of the opening shots fired in the War for Independence, the first artistic rendering was made. Over the next century, artists offered competing depictions, sometimes representing competing eyewitness accounts. On the 250th Anniversary of the War’s first battle, we proudly present this HISTORY250 Special: Imagining the Battle of Lexington.