What is the Walt Whitman Archive

In a time when hatred, bigotry and anti-democratic forces are running rampant, we need Whitman’s prophetic and love-drenched voice more than ever.

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 ...

With the explosion of the digitization of books and periodicals in the past few years, the entire sense of Whitman's career is changing, and these essays are informed by the latest revelations among ...

An antique home in Huntington, NY, built by Walt Whitman's third great-grandfather is the oldest property to hit the market this week on Realtor.com®. The ancestral home of the "Leaves of Grass ...

They ate cake, toured his former home and--of course--read poems to mark Walt Whitman’s 203rd birthday. The celebration, held on Wednesday and hosted by the Walt Whitman Association, takes place ...

"Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, the first extensive book comparing the two poets, builds on the shorter works by Karl Keller and Albert Gelpi and is further augmented by Salska's "outside" ...

High school students take AP® exams and IB exams to earn college credit and demonstrate success at college-level coursework. U.S. News calculated a College Readiness Index based on AP/IB exam ...