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The “Bloody Angle” is the name given to a piece of ground at the Spotsylvania Courthouse Battlefield on which some of the war’s most traumatizing hand-to-hand and muzzle-to-muzzle fighting took place in May 1864.  Whitman would certainly have encountered a number of those men damaged at the site.

Location : 406 Princess Elizabeth St. Poem: Whoever You Are Now Holding Me in Hand

Location : 406 Princess Elizabeth St.
Poem: Whoever You Are Now Holding Me in Hand

I’ve begun to notice more and more people discussing the Levis campaign of advertisements, as well as the contest going along with it. Heavily based on Whitman the story follows a character who after reading Leaves Of Grass for the first time sets off into America to really know his own country and himself. In […]

I found Whitman at Riverby Books in downtown Fredericksburg in front of the “Modern Warfare” section

This is the first in a series of posts on The Vault, a new conversational space in the Looking for Whitman project that is devoted to creating public conversations about Walt Whitman and his work. In a recent post on his blog, Anthropologist and author Grant McCracken writes about the Levi’s “Go Forth” advertising campaign […]

This is the first in a series of posts on The Vault, a new conversational space in the Looking for Whitman project that is devoted to creating public conversations about Walt Whitman and his work.
In a recent post on his blog, Anthropologist and author Grant McCracken writes about the Levi’s “Go Forth” advertising campaign that […]

The introduction to ‘Franklin Evans’ or ‘The Inebriate’ revealed a side of Whitman that many texts decline to show. Walt Whitman is best known as the people’s poet – a man who dedicated his life to writing poetry with the potential to unite an entire nation. He accepted African Americans as fellow men in a […]