On Saturday, May 3 at 4 p.m., the Clark Art Institute presents “Walt Whitman Comes to the Clark,” a combination film ...

When we look at photographs of authors, especially famous authors ... of one of the most influential poets in American history—the “father of free verse,” Walt Whitman.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem “Paul Revere’s Ride,” taught in classrooms across the United States for over a ...

We're approaching a day that still lives in infamy 160 years later. This April 14 will be eight score years since the ...

On Long Island, one of the most famous bird enthusiasts of the past — even though we might not think of him as a “birder” per se — is the poet Walt Whitman, who was born in Huntington and ...

The biggest retrospective yet dedicated to David Hockney in Paris combines early 1960s works with the very latest paintings from his studio.

In America’s most famous sermon ... It comes from the poet Walt Whitman. Watching a spider launch its filaments, the poet marveled at an arachnoid’s openness to the world, its desire ...

The home itself is a piece of history, having been the place where Hemingway wrote some of his most famous works ... trove of history and inspiration. Walt Whitman House, Camden, New Jersey ...

Just a mile down one of the park’s most popular and accessible trails ... all to experience what Walt Whitman (a Colorado fan after his 1879 tour) called “the untrammel’d play of primitive ...

“Equal rights & Justice to all white men in the United States forever,” urges John McMahon of Hambrook, Pennsylvania, on Aug. 5, 1864. “White men is in class number one & black men in class number two ...

Indeed, the two museums' most cherished historical and cultural treasure may well be the Patent Office Building itself. Although not the most famous ... Fredericksburg, Walt Whitman wrote in ...

Here’s how to read your way through the nation’s capital, according to DC literary historian Kim Roberts. When you think of ...