Concord unleashed to the world America's musical contributions, which sprang from our universal appeal as a nation.

At the conclusion of the Civil War, the canonical poet Walt Whitman said that the “real war will never get in the books.” ...

I’ve had Whitman in mind this spring as we’ve watched the Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency ...

The Whitman at 200 Symposium pop-up exhibition includes photographs of Walt Whitman. (Natalie Piserchio for WHYY) On the 127th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s burial across the river in Camden, ...

Whitman publishes Drum-Taps, a book of poems on the subject of the Civil War and Sequel, containing a new poem inspired by Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." ...

Walt Whitman (1819-1892), nicknamed the “Bard of Democracy,” was one of the most acclaimed and brilliant philosopher/poets in the history of our shared American experience.

Whitman’s experience with the Union field hospital at Chatham, an 18th-century plantation house in Stafford County that overlooks Fredericksburg, was his first close contact with the war.

The war between Israel and Hamas has resulted in about 140,000 Palestinian and 10,000 Israeli casualties, and there have been at least 50,000 casualties in the ongoing Sudanese Civil War.

The Civil War was over, killing 550,000 Americans, but the long fight to determine who won had begun. Sometimes it feels ongoing. Ulysses S. Grant is president and will be reelected.

Walt Whitman volunteered at Army hospitals in Washington, D.C., during the U.S. Civil War. Compassion amid chaos − how one of America’s greatest poets became a lifeline for wounded soldiers ...

The posthumous publication of "Song of Myself," a previously unpublished novel by the late gay activist and Walt Whitman scholar, Arnie Kantrowitz has been released. Song Of Myself is a gay man's ...

Calkins Creek, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-63592-587-6 This moving picture book biography from Golio and Lewis explores the work that poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892) took on during the U.S. Civil War.