Walt Whitman gives beauty to the soldiers dying under his care in the hospital. The goriest, most wrenching passage in his Memoranda During the War…
Walt Whitman called Washington, D.C. a city of “romance,” “of things begun.” It might seem an odd description by a man who spent countless hours witnessing…
Publishing history crowns Manhattan as the enduring capital of the American publishing world, despite the many changes the internet has wrought. Before the twentieth century,…
W. asked Corning [candidate for the pulpit of the Unitarian church on Benson street]: “And what may be the subject of your sermon tomorrow?” “My…
The Mexican War, though only two years long, weighs heavily among the direct causes of the American Civil War. The new territories won by the…
A line in Walt Whitman’s poem (today known as) “I Sing the Body Electric” appeared only in the first (untitled) 1855 edition: Framers bare-armed framing…