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 ...
On Dec. 16, 1773, 241 years ago, angry Boston citizens boarded British ships and dumped 90,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor. The Boston Tea Party, as it came to be known, proved one of the ...
Harlow Unger presented a history of the Boston Tea Party, which occurred on December 16, 1773. The author reports that the demonstration against the British collection of import duties was ...