Benjamin L. Carp is Associate Professor and Daniel M. Lyons Chair of History at Brooklyn College. He is the author of Rebels Rising: Cities and the American Revolution and coeditor, with Richard D. Brown, of Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, 1760-1791.
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On the evening of December 16, 1773, a group of disguised Bostonians boarded three merchant ships and dumped more than forty-six tons of tea into Boston Harbor. The Boston Tea Party, as it later came to be known, was an audacious and revolutionary act. It... SEE MORE