Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, one of the most infamous protests leading up to the American Revolution, is days away. In ...

BOSTON (WCSC) — American colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians threw 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor on Dec. 16, 1773, in what became known as the Boston Tea Party. The event marked a major ...

Vanessa Williamson is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She is the author of “The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History,” from which this essay is ...

Bostonians protest the newly passed Tea Act by dumping 46 tons of tea into the Boston Harbor. The British impose a new law on the colonies called the Tea Act, which is intended to stop smuggling and ...

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 ...