We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: maybe because it came as an unexpected gift from a friend or loved one, or in ...

These poems share a sense of urgency that reflects the overwhelmingly stressful events swirling around them—matters of war, race ... that she later joined a civil-rights march to Little Rock.

While metal detecting near the site of the Siege of Port Hudson, we may have uncovered the final moments of a Civil War cavalry officer lost in 1863. From personal relics to battlefield artifacts, ...

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

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

Fragrance, for me, has to be the most ephemeral of luxuries, with scent as fleeting as a cloud yet its impact as eternal as ...

"War Eagle" is the school's motto and battle cry, but all its athletic teams are nicknamed the Tigers. That sometimes proves ...

This Friday, you may just run into Erykah Badu and Billie Holiday at Proof Lancaster, or Sylvia Plath at the Lancaster Art ...

The painting depicts scenes from Virgil's epic Latin poem the Aeneid Tate Britain is set to return a 17th Century painting to the family of a Jewish Belgian art collector, after it was taken from ...

The Trump administration is learning dangerous lessons from El Salvador’s president, but there’s also much that the US left ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem “Paul Revere’s Ride,” taught in classrooms across the United States for over a ...