Opinion

The Other Tea Party

Yaupon, Rebellion, Indians and Indianness Guest Opinion When American colonists renounced British tea in the 1770s, they faced a practical problem alongside their political one: what to drink? One ...
When Americans think of the beverage that fueled the American Revolution, they usually picture black tea — but it turns out that green tea was just as popular. The Founding Fathers and their ...
Sarah M.S. Pearsall is a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University and author of “Freedom Round the Globe: A World History of the American Revolution.” After one protester in the Boston Tea ...