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

Paul Revere’s midnight ride warned of approaching British troops in April 1775. Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow colored how we remember the night’s real events.

Listen, my children, and you shall hearOf the midnight ride of Paul Revere,On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five:Hardly a man is now aliveWho remembers that famous day and year.

Paul Revere embarked upon his famous midnight ride on April 18, 1775, dashing from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to warn his fellow patriots about the arrival of the coming British. His ride ...

Were Paul Revere’s political cartoons more influential than his midnight ride? The Bostonian is best known for his perilous horseback journey 250 years ago. But scholars say his art ... This is “The ...

Millions of American children knew the legend of Paul Revere’s midnight ride well enough to enjoy the parodies and burlesques. In my own suburban childhood, in the 1930s, I laughed ecstatically ...

The history and legend surrounding Paul Revere’s midnight ride have been interwoven so tightly that they may never be untangled. Certainly Henry Wadsworth Longfellow obliterated all boundaries ...

Paul Revere's handwritten account of his midnight ride Revolutionary artifacts, such as powder horns, medals and a cannonball Letters and diaries capturing the daily lives of those who lived ...

Listen, my children, and you shall hearOf the midnight ride of Paul Revere,On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five:Hardly a man is now aliveWho remembers that famous day and year.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” (see below) is based on historic events, but it is more of a tale and not a historical account. Longfellow wrote the poem after ...