Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The story of the Little Longfellow War.

How Henry Wadsworth Longfellow interpreted Reconstruction by translating Dante.

He was the most revered poet of his day. It’s worth trying to figure out why.

On dying and heaven in the time of Longfellow.

On the Irish writer’s grand tour of the Gilded Age United States.

Two centuries of New England intellectual history through the lives and ideas of people who are memorialized there.

Frederick Law Olmsted’s landscape creations, especially his urban parks, remain a vital part of our present.

Historical narratives of the United States have never not been shaped by an anxiety about the end of it all. Are we a new Rome or a new Zion?

An anti-imperialist network made his warning possible.

Though Donald Trump has made it into a catchphrase, he didn’t come up with the metaphor “drain the swamp.”

The great short story writer and poet wrote many a book review.

Only if we face the painful lies we tell ourselves about the past can we hope to overcome what's happening now.

Debunking the quotation that inspired our name.