In December 1773, political activists known as the Sons of Liberty took to Boston Harbor to dump more than 90,000 pounds of tea in the ocean in protest against taxes imposed by the British.

Bostonians, in their wisdom, responded by throwing their new cheaper tea in the Boston Harbor. Robert Goulder: Now wait a second, Joe, that's counterintuitive. What's not to like about cheaper tea?

Finally, on the night of December 16, 1773, a group of "Mohawks" tossed 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. "This Destruction of the Tea," wrote John Adams, "is so bold, so daring, so firm ...

Thousands of people are expected to line Boston Harbor later this month on the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party to watch reenactors dump hundreds of pounds of tea, donated from all over ...

The oldest lighthouse in Massachusetts is over 300 years old. When the Massachusetts Bay Colony was first founded in 1630, the Puritans struggled from a scarcity of necessary survival goods which ...