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WJ Walt Whitman, The Journalism, ed. Herbert Bergman, 2 vols. (New York: Peter Lang, 1998–2003).
Advertising itself as “the acknowledged journal of the beau monde, the Court Journal of our democratic
English Journal 26 (1937): 48–52. Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition.
American Journal of Sociology 84 (Supplement, 1987): S212–S247. Sommer, Doris.
The Journalism. Ed. Herbert Bergman. 2 vols. New York: Peter Lang, 1998–2003. ———.
The Journal of Homosexuality, 8, nos. 3–4 (1983), 13–34. Foner, Eric.
The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimké. Ed. Brenda Stevenson.
Journal of Urban History, 31 (2005): 356–66. Mancuso, Luke. “Civil War.” In Donald D.
Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, 16, no. 4 (2016), 38–71.
American Phrenological Journal (February 1853), 45. Wilkenfeld, Jacob.
In his journal, Bronson Alcott will describe the Thoreau-Whitman encounter: "Each seemed planted fast