Monthly Archives: December 2011

Sons of Liberty Dump British Tea Dec 16, 1773

By Research History | Published December 16

On this day in 1773, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships moored in Boston Harbor and dump 342 chests of tea into the water. Now known as the “Boston Tea Party,” the midnight raid was a protest of the Tea Act of 1773, a bill enacted by [...]

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On His Birthday, Remembering Mark Twain’s Gifts to The Atlantic

By Research History | Published December 1

By Brian Resnick Now an American icon, the Huckleberry Finn author received his first big break in the pages of this magazine   Over its 154 years, the pages of The Atlantic have hosted essays and commentaries from literary luminaries such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, Arthur Miller, and Saul Bellow. But perhaps most culturally salient of [...]

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