I spent my early childhood in close contact with monuments of Boston’s past. My home was a block from that of Paul Revere. My preschool...

In June 1770, a few months following the Boston Massacre, Dr. Joseph Warren came to an agreement with Joshua Green when he “purchas’d a...

A mantra of Colonial Williamsburg is, "That the future may learn from the past." One of the missions of the Dr. Joseph Warren Foundation...

Dr. Joseph Warren’s life has often been reduced to the afternoon of June 17, 1775 when he was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill and...

Warren's Descendants

On the anniversary of American independence, July 4, 1855, Dr. John Collins Warren, the nephew of famed General Joseph Warren, “exploded...

What was the "Continental line"? The name came from a line item specified for each "state/province,” enumerated by acts or resolutions...

For most of the hot afternoon of June 17, 1775, the distance between the American and British forces had been measured in hundreds of...

"Speckled monster", "the great pox", "the Pox". . .Small Pox has been called many things & taken many lives. Warren got right in the battle.

By the end of the afternoon on June 17, 1775, smoke from the charred ruins of Charlestown hung heavy in the air and corpses of both...