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On December 16, 1773, the colonists of Boston threw 342 chests of English East India Company tea into Boston Harbor, an act we remember as the \u201cBoston Tea Party.\u201d

Have you ever wondered what drove the Bostonians to destroy the tea? Or whether they considered any other less destructive options for their protest?

Mary Beth Norton, the Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History at Cornell University, takes us through the Tea Crisis of 1773.

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About the Series

Episodes in the \u201cDoing History: To the Revolution\u201d series explore the American Revolution and how what we know about it and how our view of it has changed over time.

Episodes will air in 2017.

The \u201cDoing History\u201d series is part of a partnership between Ben Franklin\u2019s World and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Be sure to check out season 1, \u201cDoing History: How Historians Work.\u201d

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Complementary Episodes

• Episode 088: Michael McDonnell, The History of History Writing

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• Episode 105: Joshua Piker, How Historians Publish History

• Episode 106: Jane Kamensky, The World of John Singleton Copley

• Episode 111: Jonathan Eacott, India in the Making of Britain and America, 1700-1830