Two hundred and fifty years ago tonight, the people of Boston carried out one of the greatest feats of mass civil disobedience in American history, the Boston Tea Party. Bostonians broke into cargo ships in the harbor and dumped the tea overboard.

This was, in the words of an NPR correspondent in 2015, “an anti-tax act of vandalism against the English crown in 1773.”

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