“Civil” Society? The Fractured Teapot: Debating the Legacy of the Boston Tea Party
Smathers Library (East), 1ACenter for the Humanities and the Public Sphere/History Department sponsors a lecture by Benjamin Carp (Tufts University) The Boston Tea Party of 1773 is known to every schoolchild, yet it recently found a new place in public debates after the rise of the Tea Party movement in 2009. This presentation explores the fractured nature of …