The Longfellow House—Washington’s Headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts is maintained by the National Park Service. It was given to Henry and Fanny Appleton as a wedding present by her father. It ‘s long front lawn rises from the Charles River. Durig the Revolutionary War it served as a headquarters for General Washington. It is the home where “To a Child” and “The Children’s Hour” are set. The walk from it to Longfellow’s Harvard office passed by the smithy celebrated in “The Village Blacksmith.”
The Wadsworth-Longfellow House in Portland, Maine is maintained by the Maine Historical Society. It is the house where Longfellow was born and spent his childhood. The MHS also maintains a website devoted to Longfellow, with pages devoted to his life, his work, his poems, his family, and his homes, as well a page for teachers.
The Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site is located in the the Atchafalaya Basin of Louisiana, where many of the Acadian exiles portrayed in Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie eventually settled. The Historic Site celebrates not only the Acadian/Cajun culture still alive today, but all the peoples—Acadian, Creole, Native American, French, Spanish, and African heritage, including slaves and free people of color—whose interaction shaped the rich culture that exists there today.
The Fireside Poets provides an overview of the lives of the five poets grouped under that name—William Cullen Bryant, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, and James Russell Lowell—as well as an appreciation of their poetry and the place of their poetry in American history and culture.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems & Other Writings contains most of the poems presented in Fireside Poems, as well as many others, including the complete texts of his longer poems, including Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha, and The Courtship of Miles Standish. It is published by Library of America, which publishes over three hundred titles, from American literary classics of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, to American classics of history, politics, journalism, science fiction, mystery and suspense, and horror.