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.

Whitman was perhaps the first American hippie, which is why many aging New Agers have embraced him. He would have agreed with the central idea of New Age philosophy: “Consciousness is that in which ...

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 ...

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.

Literary society was not quite ready for Walt Whitman when his transformative volume, Leaves of Grass, came out in 1855. Whitman revised and expanded the poetry collection throughout his life and it's ...

A Literary Giant Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was renowned in his day as one of the pre-eminent thinkers, writers and ...