On December 16, 1773, members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Native Americans boarded three ships in Boston Harbor and dumped hundreds of chest of tea into the water. The protest greatly escalated hostilities between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies, and open war broke out less than two years later. Shawn McGhee joins us with a closer look at how the Boston Tea Party transformed the American Revolution.

Further Reading

Book: No Longer Subjects of the British King: The Political Transformation of Royal Subjects to Republican Citizens

Shawn’s articles

Guest Info

Dr. Shawn David McGhee is a political historian of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America and educator in the Philadelphia Metropolitan area. He is author of No Longer Subjects of the British King: The Political Transformation of Royal Subjects to Republican Citizens, 1774-1776, and regular contributor to the Journal of the American Revolution. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, Jacquelyn, and their three children.

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