Boston Harbor was the stage for the Boston Tea Party and a crucial maritime hub during the colonial era. Its waters witnessed ...

Professor Labaree asserts that the Boston Tea Party marked the point of no return in deteriorating British-colonial relations during the 1770's. When George III's ministry rashly retaliated with ...

When British troops went to seize arms stockpiled by American colonists at Concord, Massachusetts, they could have had little ...

In 1740, when Boston was a colonial outpost of 16,500 people ... Samuel Adams initiated the Boston Tea Party from the hall’s lectern. Four years later, in the same room, George Washington ...

On Dec. 16, 1773, American colonists, angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Co., into the Boston harbor.

You can toss (fake) tea overboard, climb around replica ships and converse with period actors about Colonial issues ... an authentic tea chest from the Boston Tea Party. Two of the three ships ...

That whole thing about "no taxation without representation"? Those taxes were mostly import duties on goods imported from Britain.

In March 1774, British Parliament punished the Massachusetts colony for the Boston Tea Party with the Coercive ... leaders sought to transcend inter-colonial rivalries—“I am not a Virginian ...

In 1773 rebels unconvincingly disguised as Mohawk Indians boarded three docked ships in Boston Harbor and dumped ... repaid the damage caused by the Tea Party, installed a British general as ...

In 1773 rebels unconvincingly disguised as Mohawk Indians boarded three docked ships in Boston Harbor and dumped ... repaid the damage caused by the Tea Party, installed a British general as ...