American colonists protested British taxation by boarding ships in Boston Harbor and dumping 342 chests of tea into the water, an event known as the Boston Tea Party. This act of defiance against the ...

Most people know that the July 4th holiday celebrates the day the United States of America gained its Independence (the […] ...

Modern movements cling to the Boston Tea Party as an anti-government emblem, but they target the symptom (government) and ignore the disease.

Since then, “owning” the Tea Party has been a political act. Partisans of today’s Tea Party movement have seized on it as a symbol of defiance of government, claiming the founders were united in ...

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 ...

For a nation with roots in a rambunctious 1773 Boston Tea Party protesting British tariffs, it’s odd to see both major-party White House contenders trying to outdo each other with promises of ...

For a nation with roots in a rambunctious 1773 Boston Tea Party protesting British tariffs, it's odd to see both major-party White House contenders trying to outdo each other with promises of ...

Tax Notes contributing editors Robert Goulder and Joseph J. Thorndike break down three important tax aspects of the Boston Tea Party on its 250th anniversary.

A reenactment of the Boston Tea Party was held in Willimantic’s Heritage Park on December 16, the 250th anniversary of the original tea party ...

The Tea Party was not quite that. It was the act of men who, by 1773, had long been part of their colonial political system. Yet they were outsiders in British politics. The British wished to fix that ...