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 ...

The Boston Tea Party, which took place on December 16, 1773, is one of the most iconic turning points on the road to American independence. While it might sound like a whimsical afternoon ...

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 ...

When was the Boston Tea Party? The protest took place on December 16, 1773 — nearly 251 years ago. On that day, the Sons of Liberty dressed as indigenous people and boarded three ships of cargo ...

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 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 ...

Dec. 16 marks the Boston Tea Party’s Semiquincentennial, with a variety of reenactments, retrospectives, and, of course, the demonstrational dumping of British tea into the Boston Harbor.

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, 1773 ...

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, ...

Boston is celebrating a significant anniversary this weekend, and you can join in on all the historic fun when the festivities start. The 250th Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party falls on ...

Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum tells the tale of the infamous tea dumping. Enjoy a cup of tea in Abigail’s Tearoom. The protest took place on December 16, 1773 — nearly 251 years ago.