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. By ...

Under cover of night, Colonists boarded the ships, dumped the tea chests and sparked a revolution. Hulton Fine Art Collection/Art Images via Getty Images On the evening of Dec. 16, 1773, a crowd of ...

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 ...

Among them was Nathaniel Willis, an 18-year-old printer's apprentice working in Boston. Though this name might not sound ...

Want to throw a crate into Boston Harbor without worrying about treason? Want to take a spin at the helm of a ship and then drink all the tea you want? I’ve got just the place for you. The Boston Tea ...

Tea bags are coming in from all over the U.S. for a semiquincentennial bash in Boston. Dec. 16 marks the Boston Tea Party’s 250th Anniversary, with reenactments, retrospectives, and, of course, the ...

They were fed up with a British tax on tea in particular and consumed by resentment of British authority in general. So on the night of December 16, 1773, a group of rebellious colonial Americans ...

BOSTON (CNN Newsource/WCVB/WKRC) - Boston is ready to commemorate the 250th anniversary of one of the most important days in American history. A famous act of defiance that the world would later know ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Patriotic mobs and harbor tea dumping are returning to Boston on Saturday, ...

More than two months away from the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, organizers say they have already invested hundreds of thousands of dollars into marking the grand occasion, a total they ...

In America's oldest city, the past and present walk side by side.

Patriotic mobs and harbor tea-dumping returned to Boston on Saturday as the city marked the 250th anniversary of the revolutionary protest that preceded America’s independence. The commemoration of ...