250th Anniversary of Dr. Joseph Warren Boston Massacre Oration
| Get Your Ticket To History Next Saturday, March 5, 2022 marks the 250th anniversary of Dr. Joseph Warren’s first Boston Massacre Oration. The Charlestown Historical Society is honored to host Revolution250, the National Park Service, the Massachusetts Sons of the American Revolution, the Henry Knox Color Guard, and the Massachusetts Freemasons to commemorate this monumental anniversary in American history. Join authors and historians Dr. Robert Allison, Katie Turner Getty and Christian DiSpigna as we explore aspects surrounding the Massacre and Dr. Warren’s Orations. 250th Anniversary of Dr. Joseph Warren’s Boston Massacre Oration Saturday, March 5, 2022 6 pm Memorial Hall Green Street Charlestown, Mass. Buy tickets here Dr. Joseph Warren’s Boston Massacre Oration of 1772 contains a succinct exposition of American Liberty based on Enlightenment natural rights, framed in belief in God as well as Roman Republican and Pilgrim virtues. His aspirational view for America as “a land of Liberty, seat of virtue…” set a high bar for Patriot activism. He delivered the speech on the second anniversary of the outbreak of violence between occupying British troops and rowdy street protesters. He seems to speak to subsequent generations of Americans just as he addressed his immediate overflow audience at Boston’s Old South Meeting House. Warren, Joseph. An Oration Delivered March 5th, 1772. At the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston; to Commemorate the Bloody Tragedy of the Fifth of March, 1770. |