If you are searching for Whitman-related events in the the New York area, please also check the Walt Whitman Birthplace website (we highly recommend the tours of the house Whitman Sr. built and Walt lived in for his first four years) and the Whitman House in Camden, NJ (step inside Walt’s home for his last decade).
If you have an event you’d like to list with us, please let us know: waltwhitmaninitiaitve@gmail.com.
The Library of Congress holds the largest number of Walt Whitman materials in the world, and has been actively digitizing these collections for the use and enjoyment of scholars, artists, and the general public. Join Library of Congress Historian and Curator Barbara Bair, writer and journalist Wally Suphap and Whitman Initiative President Karen Karbiener for [...]
Norman Corwin was the genius of American radio drama. Bernard Herrmann, Hollywood’s supreme film composer (“Psycho,” “Citizen Kane,” “North by Northwest,” “Vertigo,” etc.) was also the foremost radio composer. In 1944, they created a classic radio drama, “Whitman,” to rally the home front during WW II with an appeal to the ideals of American democracy. [...]
In February 1861, the president-elect of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, began a grueling 13-day train trip through the country to introduce himself to the divided people who had voted him into office (barely). Along the way, he had to deal with bruising adversity, including a serious assassination plot, but he also used the trip [...]
