Michael McHugh, an architect, history enthusiast, and runner, annually commemorates the historic Midnight Ride by running a course from the approximate site of Dr. Joseph Warren’s house on the modern City Hall Plaza to the Hancock-Clarke House in Lexington, a distance of about 17 miles. Mr. McHugh is something of a purist. He insists on […]
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Don’t miss Revolutionary Spaces’ dramatic presentation of Dr. Joseph Warren’s stirring March 1775 Boston Massacre Oration. The speech will be delivered by talented re-enactors from the Tea Party & Ships Museum. Audience members will also enjoy commentary placing the speech in the context of early Revolutionary Era events. Obtain your tickets at the Revolutionary Spaces […]
Source: 19c engraving Commentary: Among the handful of historical genre paintings most frequently appearing in history texts on the period, Trumbull’s Bunker Hill, as it is now most frequently known, is the oldest of them. The heroic battlefield death of Dr. Joseph Warren, an incident mourned nationally during the Revolutionary War and for several generations […]
As Joseph Warren’s biographer I have been gratified by the number of people reaching out to me over the years in a collaborative and collegial fashion to flesh out, and make better known, the inspiring legacy of this Founding figure. Recently Mr. Closson – an architect with an eye for history and preservation – reached […]
Source: 19c engraving Commentary: Jonathan Trumbull’s Death of Major General Joseph Warren at the Battle of Bunker’s Hill, June 17, 1775 is an iconic image of the Revolutionary War. Among the handful of historical genre paintings most frequently appearing in history texts on the period, Trumbull’s Bunker Hill, as it is now most frequently known, […]
Join historically minded Roxbury residents wanting to save the Warren homestead by signing their petition here. Recall that this location is the birthplace and childhood home of the Warren family, including Revolutionary War hero Dr. Joseph Warren (1741-1775) and his youngest brother and prominent physician Dr. John Warren (1753-1815). Their mother Mary Stevens Warren lived […]
Author: Paul Revere (alleged) Date: 1948 “From Revere’s account books: “Feb 22, 1773, Doct. Joseph Warren. To mend of a Tank and planns. 1.40 To taking out bicuspid 0.40″” Sources: Weinberger, Bernhard Wolf. Introduction to the History of Dentistry in America. St. Louis: C.V. Mosby Company, 1948. pp. 116-117. The source manuscript which Bernard Weinberger […]
Note: Yes, there will be a Springtime snow in Boston. Event just rescheduled to March 28, 2018 at 6 PM. See Old South Meetinghouse’s website for the latest information. Each year from 1772 to 1775, massive gatherings of men, women and children were held at Old South Meeting House to commemorate the anniversary of the […]
Date: Sunday, September 3, 2017 Author: Sara Salinas, Boston Globe Correspondent “While city officials look to bring new life to City Hall Plaza, a group of local historians is calling for a memorial to the life once lived under the bricks. Historians have mapped the approximate location of the former home of Joseph Warren, a […]
An ORATION; delivered March 5th, 1773, at the Request of the INHABITANTS of the TOWN of BOSTON; to Commemorate the bloody TRAGEDY of the FIFTH of March, 1770. By Dr. BENJAMIN CHURCH. Impius haec culta novalia miles habebit? Barbarus has segetes? En quo Discordia cives Perduxit miseros? En queis consevimus agros? Virgil. Ecl. I. O […]
