A CT history professor revisits the memorable election of 1884, 'one of the dirtiest in U.S. history,' which inspired a poem ...

To appreciate the act of offering comfort for the victims of war, there are few better sources of inspiration than Walt ...

Walt Whitman's small notebook, now disbound, had this black leather cover when the poet carried it in his coat pocket. Whitman first saw Lincoln when the president-elect visited New York on his ...

In a new study, participants with no expert knowledge in poetry were also unable to distinguish whether the verses were ...

In these interview excerpts from scholars, explore Whitman's calling as a poet, and the idea of a national poet. Ed Folsom, a literature professor and Whitman specialist at the University of Iowa ...

A recent study by philosophers of science, Brian Porter and Edouard Machery, has found that artificial intelligence ...