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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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 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 ...

FILE-In this Monday, Dec. 11, 2017 photo, visitors to the Boston Tea Party Museum throw replicas of historic tea containers into Boston Harbor from aboard a replica of the vessel Beaver, in Boston.

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.