Celebrating the Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party

Celebrating the Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party

On December 16, 1773, the Sons of Liberty stormed down to Griffin’s Wharf and destroyed 340 chests of East India Company Tea. This tea was the tool by which British Parliament and King George III sought to assert their control over their American Colonies. For...
Lessons from a Battlefield

Lessons from a Battlefield

“Once in a lifetime trip.” That’s how Isaiah Duffield, a ninth-grader at Decorah High School in Decorah, Iowa, and a recipient of the SYTA Youth Foundation Road Scholarship, described his excursion to Washington, D.C., with his eighth-grade class...