Walt Whitman offers insights into social studies topics including the Civil War and the impact of war on soldiers and their ...

This Friday, May 31, marks the 200th birthday of poet Walt Whitman. Events all over the city are commemorating the legendary writer, who lived and worked in Brooklyn for many years, and is, of course, ...

The uplifting words attributed to Walt Whitman continue to resonate with readers seeking hope through difficult times ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Though Walt Whitman insisted to friends that the moth was real – and landed on his finger spontaneously – it was a cardboard prop.

This week Page-Turner is publishing a series on Walt Whitman. Previously, Jia Tolentino wrote about an unusual use of Whitman’s poetry at a drug court in Alabama, Dan Piepenbring wrote on Whitman’s ...

Photograph showing Union soldiers with rifles at attention in front of the Capitol. May 13, 1861. Courtesy: Library of Congress Whitman was forty-two years old when the Civil War started. Some critics ...

Join Walt Whitman Initiative President and NYU Professor Karen Karbiener for a virtual walking tour of Whitman’s Brooklyn. The tour offers an introduction to Whitman's earliest days in Brooklyn: it ...

When you think of Walt Whitman, who was born on May 31, 1819, you probably picture the white-bearded poet who pioneered free verse and self-published the then-scandalous, now-classic Leaves of Grass.

Title page and frontispiece spread of the first edition of Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: [printed for the author by Andrew and Thomas Rome], 1855 (courtesy of the Grolier Club, ...