Then, one day, I was stopped on Washington Street by a friend who made this startling announcement: "Walt Whitman is in town; I have seen him!" When I asked where, he replied: "At the stereotype ...

When George's name was published on a list of wounded soldiers in the newspapers in December 1862, Walt hurried south to find his brother. Whitman was relieved to discover that George had hardly ...

A CT history professor revisits the memorable election of 1884, 'one of the dirtiest in U.S. history,' which inspired a poem ...

Walt Whitman's small notebook, now disbound, had this black leather cover when the poet carried it in his coat pocket. Whitman first saw Lincoln when the president-elect visited New York on his ...

At 21, Walt Whitman taught kids in Southold, but it’s said he was charged with sodomy, tarred and feathered and driven out of ...

Walt Whitman offers insights into social studies topics including the Civil War, the impact of war on soldiers and their families, American literary history, the history of New York City ...

I stop somewhere here, waiting for you,” Mass read. Those are the final lines from Walt Whitman’s poem “Song of Myself,” which is included in his seminal poetry collection Leaves of Grass.

The Walt Whitman High School boys varsity soccer team is heading to the AAA Suffolk County Championships, the South ...

No. 6 seed Walt Whitman High School’s field hockey team had their hands full in the opening round of the playoffs Tuesday, ...

The teen was shot in the chest on Auburn Place near N. Portland Ave. at the Walt Whitman Houses complex in Fort Greene.

Burns finished fifth in the all-around (36.675) and junior Bayla Goldberg placed sixth (36.325). Both are three-time team ...