Today, the villain is the Patriot Act. Here is the backstory. In 1765, when the British government was looking for creative ways to tax the colonists, Parliament enacted the Stamp Act. That law ...

Today, the villain is the Patriot Act. Here is the backstory. In 1765, when the British government was looking for creative ways to tax the colonists, Parliament enacted the Stamp Act. That law ...

Author Harlow Unger discussed the implementation and effects of the Stamp Act on the American Colonies in 1765. That law required that some printed material in the colonies such as legal documents ...

and efforts to recoup some of that cost by taxing the American colonies, including the Stamp Act of 1765. That law required that some printed material in the colonies such as legal documents be on ...

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 ...

In October 1765, representatives from Massachusetts and eight other colonies met in New York City for the first Congress of American Colonies, also known as the Stamp Act Congress. Using the ...

In honor of the 250th anniversary of the 1765 Stamp Act, Marblehead Architecture Heritage will host a walking tour from 9 to 11 a.m. Sept. 7 that will discuss actions of resistance and rebellion ...

Since the Stamp Act of 1765, street violence in Boston had become commonplace. Riots and protests had been instrumental in securing the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766. Street protests continued ...

In 1765, England found a new way to raise money from the American colonies: The Stamp Act. The recent war with France had expanded England’s empire, but left its treasury depleted. In the spring ...