In last week's puzzle, host Liane Hansen confused the Stamp Act with the tax on tea. She talks with historian David Hackett Fischer, who explains the origins of the British-imposed taxes on the ...

Wilmington, North Carolina, was the site of a major protest against the British Stamp Act in 1765. The protests occurred seven years before the more famous Boston Tea Party. A group called the Sons of ...

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Anger flowed through the streets of Lewes in 1765. Two years earlier, Great Britain and the American colonies had won the French and Indian War, but the cost of victory was high. The war left the ...