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 ...

One way to gain insight into someone’s psyche is to read what they wrote when they were 13. For Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, that’s his very first published poem, “The Battle of Lovell’s Pond,” which ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Author, Glenna Lang, Illustrator David R. Godine Publisher $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-87923-971-8 One of Longfellow's best known poems, a loving tribute to his three young ...

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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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous last name graces an avenue, a lane and a drive in Tucson. Longfellow was born in 1807 in present-day Portland, Maine, to a family that would soon include eight ...

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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 ...

Friends of Hearthside House invites the public to celebrate the birthday of American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with a special program on Friday, Feb. 27, at the historic ...