Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America Benjamin Carp Yale University Press. The Freedoms We Lost: Consent and Resistance in Revolutionary America Barbara Clark Smith ...

The Boston Tea Party had very little do with tax hikes. And despite the name, it wasn't a party. But it drew the ire of colonial leaders like George Washington. Now, on the 250th anniversary ...

Bringing vividly to life the diverse array of people and places that the Tea Party brought together-from Chinese tea-pickers to English businessmen, Native American tribes, sugar plantation slaves, ...

This infamous Tea Party came about when, fed up with England’s “taxation without representation,” patriots took to the harbor and dumped tons of tea into the sea rather than see it being taxed.

By the 1830s, events and people around the Revolution were regarded with reverence. That included reducing an act of extralegal violence to something as domestic, as unthreatening, as a tea party.

On the evening of December 16, 1773, 250 years ago today, New England colonists disguised as Native Americans calmly boarded three ships in Boston Harbor and dumped 90,000 pounds of tea overboard.

A reenactment of the Boston Tea Party was held in Willimantic's Heritage Park on December 16, ... This Dec. 16 in Willimantic, a modern group of patriots gathered to reenact the Boston Tea Party.

Starting off, Faneuil Hall & The Boston Tea Party: A Protest in Principle takes place on December 16 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. ... Patriots & Loyalists is held in Downtown Crossing from 6 to 7 p.m., ...

Five different blends of tea were thrown into the water during the Boston Tea Party, the December 16 th group said. And they haven’t faded into history – you can still sample and buy them in ...

Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum representatives will come to Gorham on Oct. 8 to place a marker on the site in advance of the 250th anniversary of the historical event next year.

Costumed re-enactors at the Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum in Boston, a tourist attraction that will host part of the 250th anniversary of the event on Dec. 16.