Pittsburg State University will host author Micah Bateman for the Victor J. Emmett Jr. Memorial Lecture at 7:30 p.m. on April ...

Walt Whitman offers insights into social studies ... Later that year he returned to Brooklyn and founded a pro-slavery newspaper. His book of poetry, Leaf of Grass, appeared in 1855.

The first edition of the book names no author on its cover or ... In the first poem (called in later editions "Poem of Walt Whitman, an American" or just "Walt Whitman" before assuming the title ...

books, pencils and paper to the hospitalized soldiers. More importantly, he lent an ear to the young men who needed a friend. His notebook from this period bore the name of "Walt Whitman ...

"Walt Whitman is in town; I have seen him!" When I asked where, he replied: "At the stereotype foundry, just around the corner. Come along! I'll take you to him." The author of Leaves of Grass had ...

Walt Whitman's ego seemed impervious to criticism, and his self-promotion — writing anonymous reviews of his own book — suggests total self-assurance. There was, however, one man whose praise ...

Walt Whitman's small notebook ... The print-obsessed Whitman loved toying with ideas for books and pamphlets, most of which were destined to remain nothing more than figments in his mind or ...

The result is a beautiful and moving film cycle. Walt Whitman was a late bloomer. By the early 1850s he had published poems, short stories, and a novel, but all of them were thoroughly ...