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 ...

The Many Myths of the Boston Tea Party Contrary to popular belief, the 1773 protest opposed a tax break, not a tax hike. And it didn’t immediately unify the colonies against the British ...

The Boston Tea Party - not the kind of tea party you’d find in a children’s book or high society - was a political protest over British taxes which saw around 100 men board three different ...

Boston's Phillis Wheatley was America's first African-American and third woman to publish a book of poetry. Her work is back in the spotlight on the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.

Our history books can’t cover everything, which means that some of the best stories fade with time. The Edenton Tea Party is ...

More Ships & Museum (L) and Nick Francesescucci Postmaster, Boston, displaying The Repeal of the Stamp Act 1766 stamp at Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum on Friday,July 01, 2016. Staff photo by ...

Nearly 100 years after the Boston Tea Party, on Dec. 15, 1873, the New England Women’s Suffrage Association organized a large rally in the Great Hall called the “Women’s Tea Party,” and ...

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. ... Young’s book, ...

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.

For the reenactment, the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum, located on the Congress Street Bridge, not far from where Griffin’s Wharf once stood, is a good stand-in. Replicas of the Beaver, ...

The Boston Tea Party is considered a pivotal event leading the American Revolutionary War. “It’s a reminder for all of us, not just here in the United States but all over the world, that ...

There were actually 10 “tea party” protests across the 13 Colonies in the late 1770s. However, only one ended up in the history books. The others, including a second one in Boston just four ...