Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. On this day in 1775, patriots in Lexington and Concord fought the first ...

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(Parts of this column were first published as an editorial in the York Daily Record/Sunday News at Christmas in 2014) American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote to a friend in 1863: “I have been ...

Bing (Casey at the Bat) once again brings his love of history and attention to detail to bear in Longfellow's classic poem. Even before the famous opening lines ("Listen, my children, and you shall ...

When I was growing up, there were four junior high schools in my hometown: Hawthorne, Whittier, Irving and Longfellow. They were all built in the 1920s and named in honor of what were then America’s ...

In the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem, what did the little girl have in the middle of her forehead? What kind of flowers blow between the crosses in "In Flanders Fields"? The name of this verse of ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In the nineteenth century, when poetry was a highly popular literary genre, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow rose to ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wore a beard in his later years to cover burn scars suffered when he tried to rescue his dying wife from a fire, according to the Maine Historical Society. Comedian Terri ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem “Paul Revere’s Ride,” taught in classrooms across the United States for over a century, begins with the line: “Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the ...