Stefan Schöberlein and Zachary Turpin, members of the Whitman Archive's journalism team, have recently published Whitman's Southern Sojourn: Rediscovering the Poet in New Orleans, 1848 as part of the Iowa Whitman Series at University of Iowa Press. We deeply appreciate their decision to donate all royalties to the ongoing work of the Whitman Archive.
We are pleased to announce that the Whitman Archive has received a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create a digital edition of Whitman's journalism from the late 1840s. This work will include a reevaluation of Whitman's contributions as editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, as well as, we anticipate, the digitization of periodical material from other papers that will be attributed to Whitman for the first time. Publication of the edition is anticipated in December 2028. We would like to thank NEH for their ongoing support of research in the humanities.
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