The Walt Whitman Archive

News & Updates

• May 2012

  The first installment of Whitman's Civil War journalism is now available.

• April 2012

  We've published more than 250 letters from the Reconstruction years. Whitman's complete two-way correspondence from the period will be available in the fall.

• April 2012

  New Civil War notebooks added: visits to hospitals, stories from soldiers, and the Grand Review of the Union army.

• March 2012

  The Archive has been awarded $275,000 from NEH to create item-level guides to Whitman's prose manuscripts.

• March 2012

  We've added more than 1,100 new items to the Scribal Documents section of the Archive.

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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.