Kevin Mcmullen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1468660 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Mcmullen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcmullen |
| SIGNATURE | MCMULLEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nebraska–Lincoln |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Taking a Page Out of Whitman’s Scrapbook
This essay details the process of digitally reassembling a scrapbook compiled by Walt Whitman in the mid- to late 1850s. Over 1,000 pages long, and comprising sections from textbooks, magazines, newspaper clippings, and handwritten manuscripts, this artifact was organized around a central theme: the world’s cultural geography. Whitman’s reasons for creating the scrapbook are unclear and obscured even further by the fact that the document is signi…
One of the Grand Works of the World
When the Brooklyn Waterworks opened in 1859, it was one of America's most advanced water and sewer systems. Yet after Brooklyn was annexed by New York City, the waterworks' history slipped into obscurity, despite having a now-famous champion: the "poet of America," Walt Whitman, whose brother worked on the project. This article shows the Brooklyn poet's fierce, multiyear lobbying effort for the waterworks in various newspapers and introduces a we…
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Taking a Page Out of Whitman’s Scrapbook
This essay details the process of digitally reassembling a scrapbook compiled by Walt Whitman in the mid- to late 1850s. Over 1,000 pages long, and comprising sections from textbooks, magazines, newspaper clippings, and handwritten manuscripts, this artifact was organized around a central theme: the world’s cultural geography. Whitman’s reasons for creating the scrapbook are unclear and obscured even further by the fact that the document is signi…
One of the Grand Works of the World
When the Brooklyn Waterworks opened in 1859, it was one of America's most advanced water and sewer systems. Yet after Brooklyn was annexed by New York City, the waterworks' history slipped into obscurity, despite having a now-famous champion: the "poet of America," Walt Whitman, whose brother worked on the project. This article shows the Brooklyn poet's fierce, multiyear lobbying effort for the waterworks in various newspapers and introduces a we…
Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Art history (1 work) · Brother (1 work) · Champion (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Digital Humanities and Scholarship (1 work) · Historical and Literary Studies (1 work) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (1 work) · Journalism (1 work)