Tag: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • Nation & World

    Sweet hymns of joy

    Harvard had a role in the creation of a few of the holiday season’s most durable carols and light tunes, including the haunting English words to “O Holy Night.”

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Boston, hotbed of anti-slavery

    A Houghton Library exhibit, the work of students, takes in Boston’s sweeping role in ending slavery in America.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Poetry in motion

    Something about Harvard, one of the world’s most rigorous universities also helps poets to blossom. It has a lyric legacy that spans hundreds of years and helped to shape the world’s literary canon.

    12 minutes