Dan Snow travels from Massachusetts to London to reveal the global story of the Boston Tea Party. On December 16th 1773, an event happened that shocked an Empire and fired the starting pistol for the ...

The Boston Tea Party, which took place on December 16, 1773, is one of the most iconic turning points on the road to American ...

The American colonies were forced to pay a tax — tariff — on tea, which ignited the American Revolution. On Dec. 16, 1773, American colonists, angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without ...

The Boston Tea Party is often invoked today as a symbol of anti-tax rebellion. But if we’re going to cite it, we ought to get the history straight — and understand why it still echoes now.