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 ...

The title that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) chose for his 1875 graduation poem was “Morituri Salutamus” — derived from the ancient gladiators’ call, Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant: ...

From 1822 to 1825, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow attended Bowdoin College, where he would become one of America's great poets. On a fine September morning in 1822 the fast stagecoach from Portland to ...

Strolling around Disneyland this summer, re-acquainting myself with Peter Pan, Winnie the Pooh, Mister Toad, Simba, and so on, the following reflection occurred to me: that these strange imagined ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Longfellow Days, a monthlong Brunswick celebration of the famed American ...

Just in case it’s not on your calendar, Wednesday, Feb. 27, is the 212th birthday of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who may be gone but is certainly not forgotten in Boise, with his famous name attached ...

Though Henry Wadsworth Longfellow never spent a night at the Wayside Inn, the 19th century bard's verse will resound through the Martha-Mary Chapel Sunday afternoon in dramatic readings of two of his ...

Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, by Nicholas A. Basbanes (Knopf, 480 pp., $37.50) ‘Listen, my children, and you shall hear / Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, / On the ...

LONG BEACH >> Poet. Professor. Parent. These are a few of the roles that defined the life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the namesake of Longfellow Elementary School in Bixby Knolls. Born in Portland, ...

The American poet who gave us Paul Revere's Ride and Hiawatha was born 200 years ago Tuesday. Fans of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow are marking his birthday with readings, concerts, and "The Longfellow ...

Composer/pianist Michael Hoppé writes volumes of music, but he's not known for actually putting much of it down in black and white. He's a studio guy, he says, his faint English accent slipping in. He ...