Paul Revere set off on horseback toward Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, with the warning that the British were coming.

Boston? Henry Wadsworth Longfellow launched an obscure Boston patriot into stardom with his 1860 poem “Paul Revere’s Ride.” Longfellow exercised some poetic license when he tinkered with the ...

Eighty-six years after that, our country was divided over the Constitution, which then condoned the tyranny of slavery. In early 1861, the abolitionist poet H. W. Longfellow published “Paul Revere’s ...

A local legend in his own lifetime, he became a national folk hero with the publication of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1861 poem, "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere." ...

For Paul Revere's Ride: The Landlord's Tale ... ISBN 978-1-59354-002-9 Selections from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem appear in The Song of Hiawatha, illus. by Margaret Early, which ...

Almost 250 years after the Battles of Lexington and Concord ignited the American Revolution, the town of Concord is getting ...