The Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum will offer free tours to mark the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. 251 years ago, on December 161773, the Sons of Liberty dressed as indigenous people, ...

Boston Tea Party Museum workers in awe over descendant’s preserved documents “We would call this the Holy Grail,” said Kristin Harris, research coordinator for the museum as she inspected ...

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Boston's Phillis Wheatley was America's first African-American and third woman to publish a book of poetry. Her work is back in the spotlight on the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.

The Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum has been collecting tea donations from all over for months, along with notes marking the event’s 250th anniversary. This isn’t the first time the museum ...

At the Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum, staff celebrated the historic day with several special events as part of a larger slate of events planned around the tea party’s 250th anniversary. ...

Museum goers toss crates with the emblem of the East India Company overboard into the Fort Point Channel from the brig Beaver during a visit to the Boston Tea Party Museum. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) This ...

Bev York speaks to participants in a Boston Tea Party reenactment, held at Willimantic’s Heritage Park on Dec. 16, the 250th anniversary of the original tea party.

John Dickman was recognized by the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum for his likely participation in the Boston Tea Party, a famous act of rebellion that took place on Dec. 16, 1773 in Boston Harbor.

Few historical events have been obscured more by the mists of memory than the Boston Tea Party. On the night of Dec. 16, 1773, colonists chucked 340 crates of British tea into the harbor.