We have published a completely redesigned and updated gallery of portraits of Whitman! 🎉 It includes better searching, scans, and notes. Scroll through all your favorite photos of Whitman (including this gem) on one page here: whitmanarchive.org/multimedia/gal….

Check out this timely short film adaptation of "I Hear America Singing" by Cal Poly San Luis Obispo English student Matthew Lam. Thanks to Dr. Catherine Waitinas for bringing her students' video series to our attention! youtube.com/watch?v=iyYdVU…

Our Graduate Research Assistant Caitlin Matheis recently visited Whitman's burial site in Camden, NJ and was happy to report that there's a bit of holiday cheer there, despite the challenges of 2020. 🎄 Happy holidays to all! ✨

New special double issue on our website! A focus on International Whitman with three essays, a review essay, and our ongoing Whitman bibliography: ir.uiowa.edu/wwqr/ (Drawing by Pablo Mañé Garzón)🌿🌿"I salute all the inhabitants of the earth" #waltwhitman #leavesofgrass

Thanks to a collaboration with art historian Ruth Bohan, we have published a new selection of art reviews that Whitman wrote while editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, complete with an introduction and annotations. Check them out here: bit.ly/2SmfV0p

Our project co-director Ken Price wrote a blog post for Oxford Academic based on his new book _Whitman in Washington_. Read it here! blog.oup.com/.../whitman-an…

Thanks to the generous support of NHPRC, last month we were able to publish 459 additional letters: 458 from Whitman's Late-Life period (1888-92) and 1 from the Reconstruction period (1877-87). 🥳 See more of Whitman's Late-Life correspondence here: whitmanarchive.org/biography/corr…

PBS's third season of Poetry In America kicks off its third season on January 21 (check local listings) with an episode titled "The Wound-Dresser" and featuring our very own Whitman scholars Ken Price & Brett Barney. Tune in to learn more about this "unforgettable American poem!"

Happy Spring, everyone! #waltwhitman #waltwhitmanbirthplace #huntingtonny #lilacs

We hope you enjoy these hilarious workout routines dreamed up by Smithsonian Magazine, one of which was inspired by Whitman (they call it "Leaves of Kicking Ass")! You can read "Manly Health and Training," one of the sources mentioned in the article, here: whitmanarchive.org/published/peri…

Happy Halloween from the Whitman Archive UNL crew!

"Writing the Brain" Oxford University Press has arrived (officially out 9/19) and is apparently quite tasty. Thrilled to see it in print! Thanks to @hannahsdoyle and her team at OUP and to john durham peters and @annestiles8 for the wonderful blurbs! (more info here: global.oup.com/academic/produ…)

And now that the piece is officially posted, let me add my congrats. Amy's discovery is really crucial for how we understand Whitman's involvement with the Brooklyn Daily Eagle--well past his editorship in the 1840s. Give it a read! Brooklyn Eagle

Brooklyn Eagle More on Whitman and the Brooklyn Waterworks forthcoming in Technology & Culture (The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)) and on Walt Whitman Archive via National Endowment for the Humanities grant. For more context, read Karen Karbiener's (Walt Whitman Initiative) excellent essay on Whitman at the Brooklyn Daily Times (doi.org/10.13008/0737-…)

☛☛☛New issue: pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/wwqr/issue/114… Includes an essay on Dylan Thomas's impact on the "Whitmanian turn" of the post-war US culture, 2 exciting discoveries, 1 review, and our ongoing bibliography. Image: Whitman's portrait hanging above Thomas's writing desk (Hulton Archive)