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 ...

the Boston Tea Party is full of fault-lines. The colonists had protested and boycotted the Townshend Acts of 1767, which levied import duties on things like tea, paper, lead, and glass.

Tax Notes contributing editors Robert Goulder and Joseph J. Thorndike break down three important tax aspects of the Boston Tea Party on its 250th anniversary, all in five minutes. This transcript ...

Courtesy: Library of Congress In 1773, when the colonists of Massachusetts staged the Boston Tea Party in Boston Harbor, Parliament, with the king's approval, hit the colony with the Coercive ...

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 ...

Among the known participants were Paul Revere and Joseph Warren. When news of the Boston Tea Party reached England, British general Thomas Gage was on leave from his North American post.

Image: Carlin Stiehl for The Boston Globe. Illustration ... Globe photographer Stan Grossfeld attended this year’s “fall party” on the mountain to capture a little bit of its magic.

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Little Big Town’s final two songs, “Girl Crush” and “Boondocks,” were lively and upbeat, culminating into the perfect way to ...

The Boston Tea Party Ship and Museum. Those who know Boston know it’s best to forgo a car to get around and, instead, take the “T,” Boston’s mass transit system. Opened in 1897, ...

including the start of the 2½-mile Freedom Trail and the Boston Tea Party site. Families should start their city tour here for the Boston Children's Museum and the New England Aquarium alone.

The Boston Tea Party, as the event soon became known, has been hailed ever since as an admirable act of civil disobedience. When I first learned about the American Revolution in grade school ...