The Walt Whitman Archive

News & Updates

• August 2018

  With the generous support of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), we have published 280 additional letters from the Old Age period.

• July 2018

  We have added the ability to search across all nine volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden. We have also added a new page of the "Disciples" section dedicated to Anne Gilchrist, including her 1870 essay "A Woman's Estimate of Walt Whitman."

• June 2018

  Whitman's 1858 newspaper series "Manly Health and Training" has just been published, along with 20 new editorials likely written by Whitman for the New York Aurora.

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Funding and support provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the US Department of Education, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, University of Iowa, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia.