During the 1773 Boston Tea Party, American patriots threw 342 chests of tea belonging to the British into the Boston Harbor to protest the tax on tea. Yorktown made a splash of its own the ...

By this time, the colonists had had enough ... Just like that, 92,000 pounds of tea went overboard and the Boston Tea Party became legend. King George III was livid. In the spring of 1774 ...

The Boston Tea Party demonstrates, in plentiful detail, how perplexingly "modern" the world had become 200 years ago. This excellent narrative explores every facet of the highly complicated events ...

In 1773, one unidentified official's disagreement with his boss, and his actions to inform Americans about it, played a big ...

an authentic tea chest from the Boston Tea Party. Two of the three ships have been recreated, the Beaver and the Eleanor, which are fun to explore. The film "Let It Begin Here" depicts the events ...

On Dec. 16, 1773, American colonists, angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Co., into the Boston harbor.