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Because of the creative spellings used by the journalists, it may be necessary to try your search multiple times. For example: P?ro*. This search brings up numerous variant spellings of the French word pirogue, "a large dugout canoe or open boat." Searching for P?*r*og?* will bring up other variant spellings. Searching for canoe or boat also may be helpful.
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for his celebration of ordinary people, and for his masterpiece, Leaves of Grass , which redefined American
Despite Whitman's centrality in American culture, his manuscripts have been little studied, and the poetry
Beginning in his teenage years, Whitman's manuscripts were scattered widely when documents were sent
dipping into the sea of paper that surrounded him, a seemingly endless source of manuscripts that were
digital form, and the ones that were in digital form were not necessarily encoded following current archival
New York City Chapter 4. Boston, 1860 Chapter 5. Washington, D.C. Chapter 6.
and of these the Irish formed about 45 percent; of the city's total population, 30 percent were Irish
Few realize the Irish were in America before the American Revolution and that many were involved in the
In New York City conditions were no better.
So many of them remained in the city that in 1860 New York was the most Irish city in the United States