Teed Off: Further Reading
The following links and documents relate to the BackStory episode “Teed Off: The Tea Party, Then and Now”, originally broadcast in May of 2010. You can listen to the entire episode here.
All Centuries
- History News Network archive of Tea Party-related articles
- More history at the Tax History Project and the Boston Tea Party Historical Society
18th Century
- Watch Benjamin Carp’s lecture on the Tea Party of 1773
- The New Yorker‘s Jill Lepore on the original Tea Party & its many resurrections
- More on the “Mohawk” disguises worn by original Tea Partiers
19th Century
- Memoirs of George Hewes, Tea Party participant and subject of Alfred Young’s book, “The Shoemaker and the Tea Party” (1835)
- A collection of documents relating to the shipment of tea to the American colonies (1884)
- Oliver Wendell-Holmes’ “A Ballad of the Boston Tea-Party” (1874)
20th Century & Beyond
- Read Benjamin Carp’s reflections on the Tea Party of 2009
- New York Times coverage of the Tea Party movement
- Economist poll on Tea Party attitudes
- NYT/CBS poll on Tea Party demographics
- Pew Research on anger and distrust of government
