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 took ...

That’s two nights in Boston, one in Freeport, two in Bar Harbor, two in the White Mountains, one in Stowe, one in Woodstock, ...

Dan Snow travels from Massachusetts to London to reveal the global story of the Boston Tea Party. On December 16th 1773, an event happened that shocked an Empire and fired the starting pistol for the ...

On December 16, 1773, American colonists stormed three British ships and hurled 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. This explosive act of rebellion against unfair taxes shook the empire, ignited ...

The American colonies were forced to pay a tax — tariff — on tea, which ignited the American Revolution. On Dec. 16, 1773, American colonists, angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without ...

The Boston Tea Party was not a protest against high taxes, but rather against taxation without representation. Modern-day parallels exist where corporate lobbying and concentrated power overshadow ...

Monday marks 251 years since the Boston Tea Party. To honor the event, the Old South Meeting House will host a reenactment of a debate that led to it. WBUR's Morning Edition host Tiziana Dearing spoke ...

Travel back in time at the Old South Meeting House to commemorate the 251st anniversary of the Boston Tea Party through an interactive reenactment by Revolutionary Spaces. The event will begin with a ...