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

PROF. BARRETT WENDELL has written entertainingly of Whitman, and yet known facts respecting the poet's early life cannot be reconciled with Prof. Wendell's statement in his "Literary History of ...

for a “Redeemer President,” Lincoln is the one figure in Whitman’s poetry that is permitted to cast a shadow over the poet himself; for this reason, it is easy to see why critics evinced from an early ...

Then, one day, I was stopped on Washington Street by a friend who made this startling announcement: "Walt Whitman ... "I could never have written Leaves of Grass." Whitman was at that time a ...

When George's name was published on a list of wounded soldiers in the newspapers in December 1862, Walt hurried south ... New York stagecoach drivers, Whitman had written about conditions in ...

Walt Whitman offers ... provide an example of the artist's work. List the "nominees" on the board and vote to see which person the class favors. Daily life in Whitman's "Manhatta." ...

Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln never spoke to one another in real life, except perhaps the briefest exchange of pleasantries. But on this page of Whitman’s pocket notebook, written sometime ...

Griffin Hansbury ’93 is a psychoanalyst and writer living in New York City. His books include Feral City, Vanishing New York ...

On Saturday, October 26, from 4-7pm, Compagnia de'Colombari’s Whitman on Walls! (WoW!) will come to Queens in collaboration ...

246 Old Walt ... Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site and Interpretive Center offers visitors to Long Island the opportunity to step back in time and encounter the life and works of the ...

24—In these fractious times, Santa Fe Pro Musica has gathered poets, musicians and actors to build community around the works of Walt ... written music to a theatrical version of Whitman's ...

Walt Whitman wrote, “I am large, I contain multitudes ... it lacks an identifiable human perspective. This matters because in qualitative work it’s important to articulate the investigator’s ...