Longfellow’s fellow Atlantic founder John Greenleaf Whittier put a similar, though less historically accurate, myth to paper in “ Barbara Frietchie,” from our October 1863 issue.

The film depicts the life of John Greenleaf Whittier, a Quaker poet from Massachusetts, who discovers his talent for poetry with the encouragement of his schoolmaster. Despite facing challenges ...

The time has come to pay that tribute of farewell, which is fitting in these pages, upon the occasion of the death of Whittier. The popular instinct which long ago adopted him as the poet of New ...

Newburyport poet Rhina Espaillat, along with the Powow River Poets, will present "John Greenleaf Whittier: A Voice for Our Time," which will consist of five Whittier poems with musical accompaniment.

A statue of John Greenleaf Whittier, the poet, abolitionist and Quaker the city was named after, was vandalized over the weekend. The still-unidentified vandal wrote “BLM” as well as an” (expletive) ...

John Greenleaf Whittier best remembered for “Snow-Bound,’’ but fall offers the chance to explore a pair of Merrimack Valley shrines to the 19th-century poet.

John Greenleaf Whittier was a Quaker poet and abolitionist who never visited the town of Whittier. However, the Quaker founders of the town knew Whitter’s work and named the town out of respect ...

There are some striking parallels between John Greenleaf Whittier, the Massachusetts poet who was a household name around the time of the Civil War, and the much-mythologized Bob Dylan, who has ...

Few passers-by notice a granite marker on Cider Hill Road that identifies the spot where John Greenleaf Whittier was inspired to write “Maude Muller’s Spring.” ...

The poet John Greenleaf Whittier of Haverhill and Amesbury, Massachusetts, spent many a summer on the New Hampshire Seacoast. Well-acquainted with its natural beauty, history, and local legends ...

AMESBURY — Recent civil unrest appears to have led to the vandalism of a statue of the 19th century abolitionist poet John Greenleaf Whittier in Whittier, California.

In 1903, the Boulder School District renamed the red brick building Whittier Elementary in honor of poet John Greenleaf Whittier. On Friday, the school (now called Whittier International) will ...