LUNENBURG — After he spent the night in jail one July night in 1846 for refusing to pay his poll tax as an act of protest against slavery and the Mexican War, Henry David Thoreau gave a lecture which ...

INDIVIDUALITY is the aim of political liberty,” James Fenimore Cooper wrote in 1838, in The American Democrat, and a decade later, in his Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau insisted that “there ...

They didn’t illegally camp out in local parks or on college campuses, as many protesters did across the U.S. recently. But back in 1773, the Boston Tea Partiers broke the law when they protested ...