It’s the middle of April, in ’Twenty-five, and hardly a man or woman is now alive who knows by heart the opening of the Henry ...

Julie Danho's first full-length poetry collection, Those Who Keep Arriving (2020), won the Gerald Cable Book Award from Silverfish Review Press. Her chapbook, Six Portraits, received the 2013 ...

Katherine Mercurio Gotthardt pours herself a cup of hot coffee. She takes a look outside at the scenery around her new home ...

Paul Revere was immortalized by Longfellow's poem and became an American icon. William Dawes, the other midnight rider, is ...

It’s the middle of April in twenty-five, and hardly a man or woman is now alive who knows by heart the opening of the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem that once was memorized by generations of American ...

What happened in April 1775 in and near Boston is an important chapter of the story of why, how and by whom America was birthed.

As Massachusetts prepares to commemorate 250 years since the start of the Revolutionary War, one way to learn about Boston's role is to hit the Freedom Trail. It begins at Paul Revere's home in the ...

One of the late Jacques Derrida’s most useful exercises in linguistic play was to hyphenate “represent.” The word that ...

For National Poetry Month, we talk with Richard Blanco, whose “One Today” poem was read at Barack Obama’s second inauguration ...

No other aspect of the American Revolution is as useful a metaphor for people all along the political spectrum.