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residents of the town of Williamsburgh, along the East River across from the Lower East Side of New York City
When Williamsburgh was incorporated into the city of Brooklyn in 1854, the paper changed its name to
incorporation into Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Daily Times became one of the three daily papers for the city
By 1860, the Eagle , according to its own reckoning, had a circulation of 6,200 daily readers, while
Nevertheless, soon after its rebranding, the Daily Times won a city contract to serve as the official
range of contexts" and there "is evidence he befriended some of the officers he met; [as such] they were
Times served as Whitman's primary, though not exclusive, employer between the second (1856) and third (1860
Whitman's writings on policing for the Brooklyn Daily Times come at a crucial moment in the history of American
While this transition was relatively smooth in Brooklyn, it led to outright rioting in New York City,
Few Impressions of Walt Whitman The Conservator June 1896 57 Greenspan, Ezra Walt Whitman and the American
Whitman's tenure at the Brooklyn Daily Times paralleled the seemingly inexorable breakdown of the American
broad-based prosperity, a position he used to successfully secure the presidency in the election of 1860
As Whitman recalled to Horace Traubel in 1889 , "we were originally Democrats, but when the time came
we went over with a vengeance: it was no role, no play, for us: we were at once what the church would
Politics Journal of American History 2023 110 3 419–48 Lause, Mark A.
Waterworks constitutes one of his longest sets of texts published between the second (1856) and third (1860
Brooklyn Daily Times editorials, note that Whitman "fought for a good system of waterworks for the city
flimsy, cheap and temporary series of works that would have long since broken down, and disgraced the city
In 1858, for instance, as the city council debated a revision to the ongoing construction, the project
and suggest that while the late 1850s may have been a period of struggle for Whitman the poet they were