The house in July 2024 "Listen, my children, and you shall hear/Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere..." Almost every American has probably heard those words at some point, but relatively few know much about the man who wrote them. His name is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , and he was the most popular English-language poet of the 1800s. On the facade of Columbia University's Butler Library in New York City, his name is carved in stone alongside those of the greatest American wri

A stately townhouse in downtown Portland, Maine is the former home of the House Speaker that changed the rules of the American legislative p