Saturday marks the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party and the city is hosting several reenactments to commemorate the historic event. A guide to Boston’s Freedom Trail On Dec. 16 ...

The Boston Tea Party of 1773, is depicted in an undated engraving. Bostonians dressed as Indians dumped 342 chests of tea overboard from three British ships in protest against “taxation without ...

Exactly 250 years to the date, the Boston Tea Party came back to life for one afternoon into the night. Matthew Solander, of Quincy, dressed up in a gray colonist suit as one of the reenactors to ...

You likely know it as the Boston Tea Party. For historians such as Robert J. Allison, the seminal event, effectively a middle finger to a powerful government and corporation, remains relevant to ...

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This is known as the Boston Tea Party of 1773. The commemorations this year will feature unprecedented levels of collaboration between organizations across Boston and the Commonwealth of ...

On a chilly December night, 250 years ago, a group of men destroyed a lot of tea. The Boston Tea Party was an act of civil disobedience. The caper, led by disguised men on the ships and silently ...

A 1789 illustration of the Boston Tea Party, then known as "the destruction of tea at Boston Harbor," by British engraver W.D. Cooper Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Consider, for instance ...

the Boston Tea Party is full of fault-lines. 1. The Boston Tea Party was prompted by the promise of cheap tea. Many colonists were simultaneously thrilled and angered by the new tax rules.

But this time, those who gather at the Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum to re-enact the most famous riot in American history will not be everyday tourists. And they will have plenty of ...

The anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, one of the most infamous protests leading up to the American Revolution, is days away. In December 1773, political activists known as the Sons of Liberty ...