While in Washington, D.C., Whitman discovered that he had something to contribute to the war effort — himself.

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

This year we celebrate the two-hundredth birthday of Walt Whitman; and by “we” I mean all of us who take conscious pleasure in speaking American English. Whitman invented a poetry specific to this ...

“But for the opera, I could never have written Leaves of Grass,” Walt Whitman said late in life. That line is the opening salvo in Matthew Aucoin’s program notes to “Crossing,” an opera that he ...

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.