America began with boycotts. Angry about Britain’s tax raises, the historian T. H. Breen writes, American colonists saw their refusal to purchase British goods as a “reflexive response to ...

On the evening of December 16, 1773, 250 years ago today, New England colonists disguised as Native Americans calmly boarded three ships in Boston Harbor and dumped 90,000 pounds of tea overboard.

The colonists had a clear goal, but the teas boycott's failure to reach it demonstrated that something about their approach needed to change. Their movement needed to be bigger. Which brings us to ...

Eager to boycott any taxed British goods, colonists started drinking tea smuggled in by Dutch traders. Colonial merchants like John Hancock and Samuel Adams, ...

Since at least 1773, when colonists threw a Tea Party in Boston Harbor to protest taxation without representation, American consumers and activism have gone back like babies with pacifiers. In ...

Boycotts were only as good as the willingness of Americans to fulfill them. In this, the First Continental Congress delivered beyond anything that had been known in the Americas before.

From the colonists who planned to boycott tea in opposition to the Tea Act to the 35-year boycott against South Africa in opposition to Apartheid, boycotting is part of our DNA, ...

PLYMOUTH, Mass. - Native Americans in Massachusetts are calling for a boycott of a popular living history museum featuring Colonial reenactors portraying life in Plymouth, the famous English ...

PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Native Americans in Massachusetts are calling for a boycott of a popular living history museum featuring Colonial reenactors portraying life in Plymouth, the famous English ...