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In July of 1776, Congress was attempting to do two things at once: break apart an empire and construct a political union in its place. The first task produced the...

This summer, countries from around the globe have gathered on fields across North America for the world’s most closely watched soccer tournament. As the United States welcomes players and spectators...

Highlighting  the important role South Carolina played in the history of tea imports in the Revolutionary era.

Christophert Gadson and his role in the Charleston Tea Party and in the American Revolution

A look into the 250th Celebration of the “shot heard 'round the world."

As the United States prepares to honor its Veterans this November 11, it is interesting to note the role of tea and coffee as traditional staples for troops both stateside...

Charleston, 843-722-3842, www.birlant.com.  As far back as 1556, when an unknown European noted that drinking chocolate was the “most wholesome and substantial of any food or beverage in the world,...

    The origin of “who first put leaf to water” is completely unknown to culinary historians. Before the mid-nineteenth century, botanists failed to decipher tea’s formula; however, many tales...

  The South Carolina Gazette reported on the dramatic confrontation between the colonists and British sea captain Samuel Ball, an agent of the British East India Company.Full transcript of the...

The “Bay is a more dangerous Navigation than the open Sea,” wrote the Charles-Town native Henry Laurens on January 21, 1774 in a letter to his son John, of the...

The revenue acts enacted by the British government on the American colonies, namely the Townshend Acts of 1767, did not affect the merchants of Charles-Town equally. Taxes were felt more...

  By the 1770’s, tea trading was a vital industry in colonial America. Parliament’s Townshend Duties tax began to put a strain on the colonists’ use of tea as a...