The Boston Tea Party had very little do with tax hikes. And despite the name, it wasn't a party. But it drew the ire of colonial leaders like George Washington. Now, on the 250th anniversary ...

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.

Local News Photos: Boston Tea Party turns 250 years old with reenactments of the revolutionary protest Tea for the reenactment was supplied by the East India Co., the same British company that was ...

No speeches. No negotiations. Just crates of British tea hurled into the sea. The Boston Tea Party was rebellion in its purest form.

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.

Travel How Boston is marking the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party Step back into 1773 during citywide reenactments of the historic event on Saturday.

The people of Boston in 1773 were unwilling to support a government in which they had no say. The Tea Party's proper legacy is the continuing fight for fuller, more representative voting rights.

What was the Boston Tea Party protest about? The protest known as the Boston Tea Party was in response to the Tea Act, which, in part, maintained a tax on tea imposed by the British Parliament.

Reenactors, here in 2017, dump tea into Boston Harbor from a ship at the Boston Tea Party Museum during annual celebrations and commemorations of the event.

A wooden ship called the Dartmouth sailed into Boston Harbor 250 years ago carrying 114 chests of East India Co. tea that brewed, in a way, the American Revolution.

Patriotic mobs and harbor tea-dumping returned to Boston on Saturday as the city marked the 250th anniversary of the revolutionary protest that preceded America’s independence.

In the 250 years since members of the Sons of Liberty boarded ships in Boston Harbor to dump their cargo of imported tea overboard — on Dec. 16, 1773 — the right to protest over inadequate ...