The Walt Whitman Archive

News & Updates

• November 2009

  Hans Reisiger's German translation of selected poetry and prose by Whitman has been added to the Archive's foreign editions section.

• October 2009

  Images of Whitman's Blue Book—the book that cost Whitman his government job in 1865—have recently been added to the site and are available here.

• January 2009

  Great news! The Archive meets its fundraising goal for the NEH challenge grant. Thanks to all contributors.

• June 2008

  The Archive has recently received grants to edit Walt Whitman's Civil War Writings.

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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.