Nearly 100 years after the Boston Tea Party, on Dec. 15, 1873, the New England Women’s Suffrage Association organized a large rally in the Great Hall called the “Women’s Tea Party,” and ...

As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday next year, let’s take a moment to remember a protest involving ...

The commemoration of the Boston Tea Party included scheduled reenactments of the throwing of tea leaves into the city’s harbor and community meetings that preceded the defiant act on Dec. 16 ...

In a span of three hours, they smashed 340 chests of tea and dumped over 92,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor. The damage caused, in today's money, was worth more than $1.7 million.

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.

A commemorative marker stands at Central Burying Ground on Boston Common at the gravesite of Bartholomew Trow, a participant in the Dec. 16, 1773 protest known as the Boston Tea Party.

The Boston Tea Party, a protest against punitive British taxes that led directly to open hostilities in the American Revolution 16 months later, unfolded on this day in history, Dec. 16, 1773.

A mock rebellion staged in Boston Saturday marked the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, an event carried out in secrecy on Dec. 16, 1773, that put the country on the road to revolution.

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.

Before the shots at Lexington and Concord, before the Boston Tea Party, there was Hancock’s seized ship and a trial that rocked the colonies. This is the untold chapter of how one merchant's defiance ...

Dec. 16 marks the Boston Tea Party’s 250th Anniversary, with re-enactments, retrospectives, and, of course, the dumping of British tea into the Boston Harbor.