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.

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 ...

Boston's Phillis Wheatley was America's first African-American and third woman to publish a book of poetry. Her work is back in the spotlight on the 250th anniversary of 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.

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.

BOSTON (CBS/AP) — Tea was once again thrown into Boston Harbor to mark the 245th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. "By order of his majesty George III I command you and your men to occupy ...

The Boston Tea Party took place on December 16, 1773 as an act of defiance after the passing of the Tea Act by the British parliament granting the East India Trading Company a monopoly on Tea ...

On the night of Dec. 16, 1773, Colonists marched aboard three ships and threw more than 90,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor. No one died, and the only things injured were the tea leaves, but ...

To mark today's 251st anniversary of the Dec. 16, 1773 event, here's an encore presentation of the official Boston.com Boston Tea Party quiz.

A private ceremony Saturday honored a Gorham patriot who heaved British tea overboard in the Boston Tea Party protest 249 years ago. Ephraim Smith was a 22-year-old sailor at the time of the tea ...

Boston Tea Party, Dec. 16, 1773 An old engraving depicts citizens, partly disguised as Indians, throwing chests of tea into Boston Harbor in Boston on Dec. 16, 1773.