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November 1773: Sons of Liberty
This story starts in February of 1765. At that time, England’s treasury had been wrecked by cost overruns from a hard-fought victory in the French and Indian War a few years earlier. And lots of folks felt that, if their American colonists were the primary beneficiaries of that victory, they should have to pay for…
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September 1773: The Coming Storm
250 years ago, September, 1773, there was a Category 5 storm headed for the North Atlantic. But it wasn’t meteorological, it was monetary. It had to do with one of the most valuable substances known to man, which was whale oil. In the days before petroleum products, whale oil provided a range of benefits like…
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June, 1773: The Letters, the Leak, and Liberty
250 years ago this month, Boston was on the boil. It was a result of events going back much further, all the way to 1603. Back then, when James of Scotland became James 1st of both England AND Scotland, his crowning raised the question of what rights the Scots would have in their newly unified…
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May 10, 1773: The Tea Act
250 years ago today, the tea started to hit the fan. It’s a moment that had been steeping for a decade. Ever since the end of the French and Indian War in 1763 – a struggle that was part of the larger 7 Years War, that spilled out around the globe, and proved to be…
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